On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:48 PM, paul beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/8/31 Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Very nice to see some outside support for many of the independently >> derived ideas I have been castigated for expressing here for months. > > In any event, you can stop reading here -- "With just 8 percent market > share, Apple has significant work to do if it wants to catch up to Microsoft > and solidify Mac OS X as a major force in the software business." -- if you > disagree with the premise that Apple wants to "catch up" with MSFT. Does BMW > want to catch up to Toyota or GM? Why are there different metrics of success > in one industry than in another, and between two companies that are in > different markets (hardware design and sales vs software)? Why doesn't Apple > have as many stores as Starbucks?
Share holders, could be assumed to, always want "more". > And your "independently derived" ideas have been commonplace since the early > 1990s, if not earlier. I have been otherwise"occupied". My own speculations have come out of what I have been exposed to on LEM. I suspect others, as well as myself, have long wanted to have an Apple OS on any machine they had available . It was some of the more controversial aspects of my proposals here that seemed to draw a lot of fire. I don't know if these ideas are so commonplace after all. I take my cues from Bruce and the others as to the "commonplace" of Mac community norms. And many have been highly resistant to these ideas. Amongst developers, however, I can believe these ideas have been speculated about for a long time. Adrian D'Alessio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
