On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:43 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:33 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: David Kelly; FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The plan is to come out with new gear every few years so as to
extract
money from
the customer base. As I already said in my first post, lots of
people
are like you -
perfectly happy NOT buying the latest Apple product. Apple wants
money
from them -
so Apple has to shake things up.
Those same people will continue to use their older Apple HW. No need
for them to be shook up.
So then Apple is coming out with all that new hardware for
nothing. Too
bad
for them then since according to you nobody will be buying it.
You can't have it both ways. Either the Apple userbase will
continue to
use their older Apple hardware and not buy the new WintelApple gear -
in which case this move to Intel chips will be a giant flop - or they
will
rush to the new gear and dump all their old gear, thus causing untold
millions of bucks to flow into the Apple coffers.
Whatever you say Ted. No one is asking to have anything both ways.
People will upgrade their Macs on pretty much the schedule they would
have before. A few early adopters will rush in.
Whatever you say Ted.
I think Apple knows it's userbase and they know that if they simply
kept
going with the same Power PC architecture that there would not be
a compelling enough reason for the userbase to pay money for new
hardware.
Whatever you say Ted
Since the goal is to get money, they needed to do something that would
cause real differentiation with the new product. Changing the CPU is
definitely
that. Now, with MacOS X86, Apple can put real marketing pressure
on the
laggarts in it's customer base to upgrade. And they will, and
Apple will
get a pile of money for doing it.
Whatever you say Ted.
Yes, Apple's goal os to make money, and over the long run the change
will pay off since if they fall behind the curve over the long run
they suffer. But it won't cause a huge spike in sales and a huge
jump in profits. You need to understand the market better Ted.
You make claims but have nothing more than
your opinion to support it.
Naturally, since Apple isn't going to tell the real truth - which
is they
want to
extract a pile of money from you - their customer.
Whatever you say Ted
You keep talking like the laptop market is paramount - but who says it
is? Laptops are always more expensive, and much more fragile. Do you
honestly think that laptops make up the bulk of Apple's sales today?
Yes, Ted, laptops are fragile, but they are also a very important
part of ANY computer manufacturer's lineup and a growing part of
their mix. Go read the sales stats Ted. For any PC manufacturer the
laptop is growing greater than the desktop.
When
you can get a G4 minimac for under $500?
Logic doesn't even support it.
No, in this case there's real logic behind it. It is rather
unflattering
to the
typical Apple consumer of course - nobody wants to admit that they are
being manipulated, obviously - but it is very logical.
No its not Ted. Only to you Ted. History doesn't support it.
Logic doesn't support it. Apple's efforts to continue support for
PPC for a long while don't support it. The chip market facts don't
support it.
Whatever you say Ted
Much more so than
the official line from Apple which basically is a statement that the
Apple
hardware designers aren't smart enough to design a laptop that will
handle the G5 "Mommy, the chip is to hot, it hurts our hands, wahhh
wahhhh
wahhh"
Whatever you say Ted. Just remember that chip experts, who don't
work for Apple, agree with me, not you. IBM agrees with me, not
you. Motorola agrees with me, not you.
If Apple really only cared about pushing more kit (instead of
creating and nurturing a growing market over the long haul) don't you
think they would have come out with a G5 laptop if it were possible?
Go read Apple's statements over the last 2 years on a G5 laptop.
Google is your friend
But on second thought, these are the designers that made a computer
look like a table lamp, so maybe they really -aren't- smart enough
to do
it.
Whatever you say Ted.
Chad
Ted
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