Agreed. Apple should run itself as a business in order to BE in business. It's a company-eat-company world, and business trade-marks/branding are acquired every day. Therefore the Apple brand could 'continue to exist' even if merged with IBM (unlikely today). One of the largest on-line PC parts companies - TigerDirect, a few years ago acquired CompUSA. The CompUSA name is on the front of the store, but the store content is now just a showroom for the TigerDirect on-line catalog. So, a merged Apple wouldn't be quite the same anymore, I would imagine.
I tend to pull for the underdog, incase you guys haven't noticed. :-) After all, I was once an Amiga fan-boy "based on its merits". Microsoft Windows was/is/probably will continue to be a standard for a long time. If Apple would open up OS X to other hardware, this could change. I don't mind OS X becoming simply a standard - if it is better than the old standard. Then, there could be something new and even better. Something to make us "think more different". ~Roger On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I actually don't mind the fact that Apple runs itself as if it was a > business. When I worked there (1987-1992) there were a few lay-off > occasions, and an ongoing rumor about being merged with Sony or IBM. There > was a joke at the time: "question: What would you call the company if IBM > and Apple merged? answer: IBM". > > Then a few years later things were quite dire. Each time something like > this would happen it was possible to imagine a future where you had to give > up your preferred way of computing. The same would be true if Microsoft > went under, for Windows users, but there's rarely a case where Microsoft > were in danger of collapse. > > The reason I was never a fan of Windows isn't because of a subtle > difference in the way the OS works, it's because I don't like to do things > just because everyone else is doing that thing. I would rather use > something based on its merits. As such, I don't really like that everyone > automatically gets an iPod or iPhone, just because everyone else does. Now, > Apple's hardware and software is pretty good, and so is worth having, but > not just because everyone else has one. > > About the $20 to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I suspect that doesn't fully > pay for the development of OSX, and that's with Apple just having to > support a handful of computers. Imaging their costs if they had to support > every conceivable PC configuration. > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> > wrote: > > > If Steve Jobs really did want to make a better world (for all), then > Apple should share its wonderful > > creation by allowing it to run on other hardware. Otherwise, they > continue to propagate an elitist stereotype. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
