On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 3:48 PM -0700 8/31/2008, paul beard wrote: > >Does BMW want to catch up to Toyota or GM? > > The purpose of a publicly traded company is to make a profit for its > shareholders. It does not matter how large of a market cap the > company has, or how much cashola it's stashing away. All that > matters is the slope of the stock price. > > That being said... > > >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)? > > This is one of the places where the auto industry analogy fails. >
Um, it fails all over the place: that's the point. As noted, if you don't think Apple wants to or needs to "catch up with" MSFT -- which is in a completely different line of business -- then the licensing argument is DOA. If on the other hand, you want Apple to get out of the hardware business and sell just an OS head to head against MSFT, who are pretty firmly entrenched, I'm not sure what that gets you. How well was NeXT doing before Apple bought them? You ever use it? Know anyone who did? Talk about marginalized . . . > > Case in point: Having/driving a BMW does not place you in the > position of being marginalized. Having/driving a Mac does. Mac may > be a superior platform, but there are many many many things it cannot > do / services it cannot access. And that relegates it to being a > second class citizen. > No one can make you feel inferior w/o your consent . . . > > We're just looking for ways to fix that... > We're trying to THINK DIFFERENT. > I think you need to think some more . . . -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ <paulbeard.org> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
