The cynic sez that all business have just one aim: Earn as much money
as is possible. So Apple never was a computer company. They were a
money company which started out manufacturing computers. If they have
a reasonably safe opportunity to earn money by changing what they
have been doing, they will take that opportunity.
BTW, I remember about 40 years ago when General Radio and
Hewlett-Packard both seemed to be in the business of making
electronic instruments for the use of electronic engineers. General
Radio made higher quality instruments (in my opinion) than did
Hewlett-Packard. AFAIK, General Radio continued solely in the
instrument business, and I think that they are no longer in
existence. Hewlett-Packard realized that they were in the money
business, and prospered. Does Hewlett-Packard still make instruments?
I don't know, but I'll bet that they don't care, one way or the other.
At 9:00 PM -0400 4/16/07, Steve Rigby wrote:
...it has been my speculation, based in great part on Apple's
seemingly almost singular public focus on entertainment oriented
products and services, that they were no longer going to be truly a
computer manufacturer.
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