Apple- Yesturday, Today, and Tomorrow

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by riccbhard

I agree with Ponderosa, I think Apple's biggest mistake was letting bill gates getting away with the macintosh gui. If this didnt happen, and you asked somebody about windows they'd say "what, windows?". Unfortunetly people say "what, maintosh?".

there's a problem with that. gates didn't steal it off jobs. he stole it off xerox with jobs....

the court cases fell through at this point. hence: "mac's, they're like PCs right?"

[fryke]

Ah, we can't change history, anyway. So let's just say Apple should continue to drive innovation. And maybe create one or the other wonder like Mac OS X and the iPod. But better. Insanely great. Can they repeat success? What will be _the_ next product Apple rocks the world with?

[iSwitch]

And what about the processor?

[Lt Major Burns]

my g5 is completely comparable to a mid-to high range pentium. which is what it is in competition with. the difference is, my computer uses it better. the powerPC architecture is just that - archtiecture. it can still be as powerful as the x86 thing, and pentium, at the moment, simply can't keep up with athlon anyway, so it would have been a bad choice again.

everyone is hitting power-walls at the moment. it'll be fine in a couple of years.

future? just carry on! at the moment, apple are doing pretty much everything right. jobs and his team are doing a very good job of making good products mixed with enough media hype to sell them.

just improve, and keep on innovating!