Calling the new Titanium PowerBook G4 "the most impressive notebook computer ever," Fortune says that "the titanium-hard truth is that Apple needs all the innovation, sex appeal, and, well, luck that it can muster if it is to gain market share in a world dominated by the Microsoft Windows operating system."
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This is the typical kind of bullshit that I expect from these dorks who write about business, What I see is a bunch of hack writers who are nothing but CEO wannabe's giving out half-a** investment info. Never believe anything you read and half of what you see...
This is the typical kind of bullshit that I expect from these dorks who write about business, What I see is a bunch of hack writers who are nothing but CEO wannabe's giving out half-a** investment info. Never believe anything you read and half of what you see...
I completely agree. These guys always say the greatest thing about the product, then have to backpedal in a vein attepmt to save what they view as their reputation. They want to be objective, but then not look bad in the eyes of their Windows-centric world.
Just call it like you see it guys and don't comment on where the planet currently sits on it's axis, it's irrellevent.
This guys is obviously clueless...
"But the PowerBook's superthin design makes it seem fragile, particularly when it comes to the extravagantly wide, 15.2-inch LCD screen that is in effect the lid of the laptop. Running a finger lightly over the lid of the computer causes distortions on the screen, which is disconcerting. "
That happens to all LCDs... comments like that completely discredit what few logical points the author had to make.
If mac users listened to all of the c*** that came from the press, we'd go crazy. They are clueless, stupid, and uninformed. The most advanced operating system is coming out in less than two months and all the press says is that the OS X version of Office isn't coming out until Fall.
Amazing isn't it? Something as fantastic as "Most impressive notebook ever" could be followed by a -' but well it's actually too late, but good luck anyway' type of bullshit response.
PC people are freaking locked into their Microsoft this and Microsoft that mentality. To them, if the name 'Microsoft' isn't in the name then it sucks. If Intel or AMD isn't there, they don't care. Quality and user satisfaction are SECONDARY. Selling truckloads of s*** is primary. Corporate bedfellows that stoop so freakin low as to call a computer "the best" and at the same time say bash it comand no respect from me, and hopefully educated consumers as well.
LONG LIVE APPLE
ALL HAIL STEVE JOBS
BILL GATES IS THE ANTI-CHRIST! (well maybe not, but darn close)
Remember his NYTimes/technology column titled “Mac users feel the pain?” in spring of 98? It cost him dearly cause he ate crow after that, and even prompted his boss, the Editor in chief to send me a nice note “explaining him away.” Sort of an apolofy for his ..brain or lack thereof. :-)
Anyway, these worms never go away, they just circulate in the system, and spew ink from time to time.
http://pla-netx.com/linebackn/evil/index.html
Whow, I didn't mean to start of this rant (probably I didn't). While I too don't like these stories basically neither M$ nor the Press could be held responsible for this situation.
After the first wave of enthusiasm about the Mac Plus in 1984 it was said too expensive and less expandable. Comments that returned a whopping 16 years later with the introduction with the Cube. Again Jobs' ego's gone through. Don't get me wrong, without Jobs there we would all buy PCs already! But errors made more than a decade ago are still the limiting factor to Apple's future success. And a couple of "minor" errors (CD-RW, positioning of the Cube) destroys all the work from the last three years.
And even worse, the effort neccessary to recoup the lost sales from the CD-RW/Cube-"desaster" will r***** Apple from their next "big step".
anyway
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come on
I don't like these "Apple is so cool, too bad M$ owns all the market share" type of comments, even worse, often the people from the industry make them.
I'm not mad with the everyday customer who purchases a Compaq or Dell. It's the people who know the difference (reliability, ease of use, hardware and software engineering, cost of ownership!) and still neither buy a Mac (it's only for creative people, it's expensive, it don't uses industry-standard parts) nor recommend them.
People started buying PCs back in the 80s because their company placed one on their desk. Apple didn't bother about delivering a typewriter/calculator-deluxe kind of machine (which is ok to me) and now they have to live with the consequences. Not even now, with Gigabit Ethernet and NetBoot-capabilities there is an Enterprise Solution worth mentioning...
sorry, I've got carried away
again
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