On 7/14/02 11:26 PM, Paul Berkowitz said: > That's a rather short quote. Is there more? From what you quote, it sounds > like he's alerting Apple Computer about something or other. Where is he > threatening users?
All I have is the MacMinute (www.macminute.com) summary: > �A Wall Street Journal article (paid subscription required) discusses the > displeasure that some major developers are voicing over the sales of Mac OS X > software and Apple's promotion of the operating system. In particular, > Microsoft blames Apple's marketing for lackluster sales of Office v.X: 300,000 > copies to date, behind the pace of 750,000 it wanted for its first year, come > November. While Microsoft remains committed to delivering another version of > Office in 2003, "it's harder to predict [past that]. If things don't > dramatically turn around, we'll be evaluating this business with Apple," Kevin > Browne, head of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, told the publication. > Corel has likewise expressed concern: after delivering seven Mac OS X titles, > the company has found that most of its users continue to work with Mac OS 9. > Apple's Phil Schiller, senior vice president of world-wide product marketing, > calls such claims "very misplaced," saying that 2.5 million users are using > Mac OS X and that the company expects 5 million users by the end of year, "on > top of our targets." Not all developers share this sentiment, however; Adobe > saw Mac sales rise from 27 percent of its business to 31 percent last quarter, > a move that it attributes largely to the release of Mac OS X titles. Yes, I can see that he is probably "alerting" Apple Corporation about something: OS X sales, I guess. But I'm not Apple. I don't market OS X. I'm a user: I buy Office. And when I read a statement like that, I instinctively feel threatened. And my reaction is to think to myself, "Well, evaluating goes two ways, Kevin." Don't get me wrong: I love Entourage. I evangelize it to all my friends and colleagues who still use other email clients. But it gives me a queezy feeling to read something like that. Puts me into "time to go looking to protect my interests" mode. -- Sherman -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
