On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Ted Treen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Apple is doing JUST FINE the way they are; just because they're >>>> not doing what YOU want does not mean they're failing. >>>> >>> Ted Treen wrote: >>> >>> >>>> All these people who know where Apple's going wrong...I wonder >>>> how many of them are CEO's of successful IT companies. >>>> >>> BINGO !!! >>> >>> >>> >> >> As if being a CEO or CFO was the measure of a man or his right to bear >> and express an opinion. >> >> I wonder how the founding fathers of the USA felt about that. Care to >> exchange quotes from them? >> >> > > Not at all, old chap. > > Everyone has a right to their opinion. > > I just consider that the opinion of someone who's proved themselves in > that field (by becoming a CEO of a successful IT company?) has a little > more weight and - dare I say it? - even a little more validity based an > a successful track-record of doing that for which he's now being castigated. > > Regarding privilege & lofty towers - Yes, up until a couple of weeks > ago, I ran a G4 sawtooth - a gift from a friend who'd bought a new Mac - > and over the last few years, I've lovingly tended it & upgraded it - a > bit at a time. I've now got a 3 yr old G5 dual 2GHz, which has taken me > 18 months of dedicated hoarding of pennies - and a fair few sacrifices - > to be able to afford. It still has my 10-yr old Mitsubishi 19" CRT > monitor on it, I've told all friends and family that if they can > collectively help Santa to get me a 22" TFT at Christmas, I'll be a very > happy man. In the meantime, I'm just very happy with what I've got and > didn't really miss the nights out at the pub etc. that I cut out whilst > saving... >
Every time I count pennies my 1985 car breaks down in hundreds of dollars! LOL-COL:) And I gave up nights at the pub years ago. But in the first regard I have written before on these issues about the multiple layers of irony involved in this. Apple is a company founded by a couple of phone hackers. the most prominent one has been noted for taking risks and espousing heretical thinking for all of his days. And many of us including myself admire him for doing so. To think that Steve Jobs could not pull off any of the alternatives proposed here and find a market advantage if one is posssible at all would run counter to what he has done in the past. A real chance taker that one! "The single greatest career comeback of all time" is a published description of Steve. And he did not do it by playing safe. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
