On Dec 8, 1:49 am, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > He (Apple) lost to Windows and the PC, the Mac could have been the standard > but it never worked out that way. Im not saying the Mac failed, but it didnt > win...
Steve Jobs quote from 2004 (in http://daringfireball.net/2006/05/confidence_game): "The Mac-user interface was a 10-year monopoly. Who ended up running the company? Sales guys. At the critical juncture in the late ’80s, when they should have gone for market share, they went for profits. They made obscene profits for several years. And their products became mediocre. And then their monopoly ended with Windows 95. They behaved like a monopoly, and it came back to bite them, which always happens." You could argue that Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple back when the Mac lost to Windows. I think his recent moves with the iPhone and the iPad to go after market share show that he doesn't want to repeat that mistake. So I agree with Cedric on Job's motive. iOS devices represents > 60% of Apple's business today, so they got to protect their most important asset. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. 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/javaposse?hl=en.
