[Arden]

Originally Posted by Clie

[FONT=Georgia]Hot Damn! I can't believe this thread is still alive. Cool. I think there is great energy in a lot of these ideas. I wonder what the likelyhood that anyone at One Infinate Loop lurks this board. Wishful thinking.

- Rixio, and Corel certainly stir my juices, however I pull back at the thought of an Apple Office product. Its my opinion that the only reason MS doesn't slit Apple's throat is because of the dependable revenue stream Mac Office provides. Should that cash flow ever deminish, the relationship (love/hate) such as it is will tilt toward hate/destroy. Four billion dollars cash in the bank verses fourty-eight billion in the bank, is not the type of odds I'd want to go up against, my love for underdogs not withstanding. I would hate for Apple to become distracted because of having to magage it's relationship with Redmon from an even more negative vantage point.

- I agree that the reason Apple exist today is because they refocused on who they are at their core. It would not shock me if you saw Apple spin off the iTune, iPod venture after a succession of profitible quarters (say 8-12 quarters). Apple would of course keep a controlling interest in the new entity.

Hey, I'm always happy to offer pennies two at a time.

A) You have to close tags for them to work; you can't just leave a [font=] tag open.

B) I don't think Georgia is one of the supported fonts for viewing text on this board.

C) I doubt Microsoft could do much to touch Apple without being smacked up with anti-trust legislation like the DoJ's own personal bitch. Sure, they would hate for Apple to cut off their bloated, overpriced cash cow of MS Office, but Apple has every right to make their own, competing office suite. Microsoft may stop supporting Macs very well, but then there's nothing new in that arena.