Well said. Apple doing QUITE well these days. On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Need a reason to think an Apple OS for PC would be a good thing? >> >> Extrapolate from this report. > > Which report has *nothing* to do with OS X; its merely a statement of the > overwhelming market dominance of iTunes/iTunes Store/IOS in the handheld > market, and the long needed euthanization of the Zune. > > The Zune was a joke from the beginning, a half-hearted MS attempt at being > 'Just Like Apple' complete with the requisite MS missteps in marketing, > execution and completely not getting it. > > Let me translate: > > "Waaah Waaah Waaah Apple won't make it easy for me to get OSX to run on > cheap-a** hardware from someone else! I'm too poor/cheap/stubborn to either > buy a real Mac or learn how to Hack my own! Waaah! While I'm at it I want > Mercedes to sell me a 500sl for the same price as a Yugo! Waaah!" > > The day you can present a business case for Apple to chop off a good 40-50% > of their income in return for supporting 1001 different crappy PC > manufacturers and facing an epidemic of pirated copies of OSX, you'll make > your point. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
