1 May
2010
1 May
'10
5:50 p.m.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 5/1/10 11:58 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
To be honest, sadly, the beginning of the end is when they moved from
PowerPC to Intel. After that, the decline into just-another-PC-maker
was inevitable.
However, the iPod was a company-saving product, the iPhone an
inspirational game-changer, and I think that if Jobs pulls off this
next transition, the company could remain a major force for some years
to come.
Liam, thank you very much for the blog article.
?If we will become a
cloud-oriented computing society, there will certainly be profound
social consequences.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm saddened that the company
I worked for for twenty years (Apple COMPUTER) no longer exists. I understand why it's happening, it's just
very sad to see the 'production'
side of the product line slipping away to high volume devices geared to
'consumption' and generating a constant revenue stream under their total
control.
It's not just Apple, though. It's the whole computing-devices industry.
Will China start making low-margin open content
products to fill the void,
or
would they conclude there isn't enough money to be made to bother. I've been
wondering why we we haven't seen a 'kindle killer' yet from them that
handles
ordinary pdf.
I think it will be a while yet before anyone else can rival Apple's
unique qualities.
It may just be their domestic consumption is
increasing fast enough that
they
won't bother with products for US export in the future.
Ah, well, that may be true.
But within 2 to 3 decades, most of the glaciers in the Himalayas will
be gone, meaning that the rivers that provide most of Asia will dry
up. Big changes are coming. The world isn't going to end up speaking
Chinese, I think.
First, for starters, there will be a big war between the Asian
countries and Russia, possibly in alliance with western Europe. That's
gonna be messy.
The USA won't get involved, though - it'll be too busy invading Canada.
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