> Nick wrote: > something I couldn't get any additional use out of, and in the end would > actually make my normal day-to-day tasks more difficult. >
If the day-to-day task is getting from A-to-B I'm not sure how you could do it faster, more comfortably, or more fun :) But, to each his own. > Apple doesn't target the enterprise customer Well, that's not fully true with Xserve and one could argue that, like the airlines, the MS business model is quickly on it's way out. To borrow from SUN, if the computer is the network, then the value-add of a PC is zero; in fact negative. One might theorize that business drove the rise of PC1.0, but the consumer will drive PC2.0, and right now that's looking like "rich" content: movies, sounds, etc. If your typical enterprise apps (email, Word, Excel) move to the web, and thus become platform independent, Microsoft is screwed and they know it. Unfortunately they've never been a disruptor or an innovator. They've relied on their capital to buy them out of their problems - but right now Google and Apple have "the Big Mo". E.g., take any new development in your average enterprise. Is it designed to run as a client on a PC or is it designed for the web. 90% of the time, the web. So if most apps run on the web, and Word, PP, and Excel move to the web, why do you need PCs? You don't. So what is Microsoft doing about that? Nothing that's working thus far. So, you could argue that by focusing on the consumer market Apple is focusing on the future of the Enterprise. > that, just look at their new phone, it's a smart phone with no third party > app support, no enterprise email support and it doesn't support UMTS, but it > is $600, and some people will buy it. > Prediction: It will sell better than the iPod, it's service model will be an industry disruptor, and Apple will become a major power in the cell phone market. And the cell phone market has 2 billion users vs., say, television, which has 1 billion. If Apple can control even a portion of that market if will be larger than all television outlets combined. It's iTunes model promises to do that if they can port it to video content. That then opens the door for targeted demographic specific ads, which would make Apple THE go-to company to advertise ANYTHING. The iPhone is rumored to integrate with Leopard and AppleTV - in fact run a miniversion of Leopard. That sounds like a platform strategy to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
