On 10/25/2010 09:17 PM, phil swenson wrote:
Just for brainstorming... who tells us that they are still interested in
that market? They make only 33% of revenues out of standard computers (I'd
like to know how much from servers) and it's always dropping.
"only 33%"? Would you take a 33% paycut if your boss told you it's "ONLY" 33%?
who walks away from a $22 billion business? It's a growing business
too. Quite quickly (check latest quarterly results). As Jobs
indicated in "Back to Mac", the mac business alone would place Apple
at 110 on the Fortune 500.
Phil, just a few years ago it was 100%. Now it's 33%. It's not growing,
it's decreasing in percentage.
I guess they could (although it doesn't fit in the iOS model at all
with file system stuff, compilers, etc), but what if you are deving
against Ruby on Rails or PHP or Java for the server side? Gotta do
that on Windows/Linux? What about the people coding the OS itself?
Or the Apple Store (java)? Or iTunes?
It's an insane idea.
The most unlikely point is actually thinking of Apple engineers running
on Linux or such. But this sounds to me as strange as running a
privately maintained, server-only Java runtime. So, there's a strange
point to be understood.
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