Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] WWDC June 7-11; Mac OS X de-emphasized; Enterprise sessions missing
- From: Scott Jackson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:14:24 -0700
You are taking a quote from which Steve wasn't at Apple but a mere spectator. At the rate of which Apple was going he was right. Apple at that time lost it's identity or it's soul. But clearly Apple regained that identity.
Even upon Steve's return to Apple, he didn't use the Mac OS for some time. He remained on the NeXT OS until he felt Apple had a respectable solid solution.
I don't even know if Shakespeare could write a better comeback story than Steve Jobs' return to Apple.
Unless you just woke up from a comma, your argument is seriously dated to the late 1990s. A lot of time, hard work, tremendous focus and a ton of success has changed that sentiment Steve felt in 1996.
Apple will soon pass Microsoft's market cap, probably this summer. Why? Because they understand who they are as a company. They have great success in all the products they produce and businesses, consumers, education and even government agencies find it to their great benefit using Apple's products.
Apple can't be everything to everyone but they do a pretty darn job of it.
sj
On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:33 PM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
> Let me just paste the word of Steve Jobs himself from Fortune magazine.
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> "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago." Quoted in Fortune (1996-02-19)
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:15 PM, "Scott Jackson" <email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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> If Adobe pulls their suite on Mac OS X consider it suicide on their part.
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> Microsoft and Apple actually work well together despite the tongue and cheek quips they pass back and forth to one another. If I recall correctly Microsoft and Apple share patents with their OS's or they made that handshake deal back in 1997 when Microsoft invested 150,000,000 dollars into Apple. Apple dropped all lawsuits it had with Microsoft at the time, and both companies started to perform a great partnership. Even to the point where the MacBU was putting out a better Office (aside from adding great Exchange support). Apple nor Microsoft sue each other over similar OS features. They have more fun slamming each other.
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> To say Microsoft is going to pull from Apple is an absurd notion to even consider. Remember Microsoft makes software and their business is to continue making software. If the Mac gains more market share, thus more users or a balance that maintains Microsoft revenues. For Microsoft it is a win-win. You don't pull your cash cow product from a platform that is bringing in a good revenue stream.
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> Two examples of why Adobe will not pull from Mac. Remember Quark or do you remember AVID? Yeah both companies are still around, but their arrogant missteps to not support the Mac OS was fatal. Both applications lost dominance. Quark didn't adopt Mac OS X quick enough and they went from being a 70 to 80 percent leader for Desktop Publishing to a secondary has been. AVID made its move to Windows and Jobs ask them to stay on the Mac. AVID didn't and Apple bought, and further developed Final Cut Pro. Now Final Cut dominates the industry. Quark and AVID are the ones who are fading into non-existence.
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> To say OS X is done or if fading is kind of ridiculous. They are gaining more and more users, switchers and Apple is still aggressively tuning OS X. Snow Leopard was just the beginning of unleashing the true power what this OS can do for hardware and software. Future updates are going open up the world to the new way of achieving those goals. If anything Apple isn't one to sit idle on anything. It took 10 years to build a killer OS. Do you seriously think they are done? LOL! They just built a rocket and now Apple is getting ready to go beyond our galaxy.
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> I will bet that Apple will even have 40 to 50 percent market share when it comes to desktop/laptop OS's within 10 years.
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> To put it more bluntly Apple is kicking ass!
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