It was thus said that the Great Eric Smith once stated:
If you compared Apple and Microsoft at that time, it was apparent that
selling software (with perhaps some hardware business as a sideline) was
a much more lucrative proposition. Microsoft had similar revenues but
much higher profits. We all wondered why management didn't get it.
While I might not like Microsoft or Bill Gates that much, I do have
respect for Chairman Bill---he called it correctly back in 1975. Hardware
was not where the money was, it was software.
And Apple has never figured out if it was in hardware or software.
Personally, I don't think it's in either. It's in R&D, only it
doesn't
realize it's the R&D department for the Computer Industry.
-spc (It may not have started out doing R&D, but it sure ended up
there ... )