| Oxford 2007-10-25, 4:33 am |
| Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> wrote:
>
> And this is why Apple is forever doomed to be an "also-ran" in the
> industry -- cretin fanboys like Oxford that so thoroughly annoy everybody
> else that they PROHIBIT use of Apple products in their companies.
well, we'll see, it's still quite early in the PC game... especially now
that MS seems to be exiting the market is telling. They loose .25% each
month to Apple and that's increasing at a rapid rate.
29% of the laptop market is now Apple... that's shocking... in the
future, all modern university classrooms will look like this:
http://snipurl.com/1sodk
smart people buy Macs, iPods and iPhones, dumb people don't - it's
really that simple.
>
> Wrong. Apple did not invent the personal computer. I was around at that
> time.
Ah, you might want to talk to the inventor. Woz... or read the book:
iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal
Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Woz is widely credited to creating the first personal computer.
I was around at that time too, and he was the first one to do it.
>
> Wrong. Apple did not invent laser or inkjet printers. For that matter, I
> used laser printers in 1975, long before Apple existed. Quick, how many
> people know what that printer was called?
and I never said they did, but they were the first to popularize the
Laser Printer on a huge scale. First with Fonts on a wide scale, etc.
You are talking about huge HP 1000 pound boxes, not the Laser Printers
that Apple popularized. Think Mark, THINK.
>
> Wrong. Neither Steve Jobs, nor Apple, invented the web. I happen to know
> the inventor (who by the way is a European) of the web.
And I never said they did, but they did provide the critical tool that
made the Web possible. If there was no Interface Builder, there would be
no Web. Sure, Tim is a common enough fellow, lots of people know him.
But he was able to create the Web on a NeXT Cube, no other machine could
have made it possible. NeXTSTEP, now called OSX Leopard, did it... And
you have Apple/SJ to thank.
>
> Too bad for your predictions that the overwhelming majority of mobile
> phone users have neither the slightest interest nor use for an iPhone or
> any other doo-dad that does anything more than make calls.
Yes, and they said the same thing about the iPod in 2002, not it 5 years
later and it has 72% of the market. the iPhone will take a similar path,
just watch...
> Most people do not WANT to access the Internet from their mobile phone,
> much less pay for an obscenely priced data plan to use an obsolete EDGE
> network. Much of the mobile phone market is people who have el cheapo
> phones on bare-bones plans.
>
>
> You must be taking some fine drugs to have such hallucinations.
No, I'm just skilled at perceiving how products/markets interact. You
don't seem to have any of those skills, so you are stuck at a university
in one of the most backwards technology states in the USA.
> Tell that to the people who have had to have their iPhones replaced due to
> cracked screens.
Like all 200 of 1,300,000? I'm sure Nokia has a far higher failure rates
of cracked screens. The iPhone screen is a ROCK... most solid smart
phone ever created for the mass market.
> Tell that to the people in Japan who have 3G Nokia phones that in every
> way are far superior of iPhone. There's a set of reasons why Apple
> doesn't even try to enter the Japanese mobile phone market. One is the
> lack of 3G. Another is that the Japanese already have much better.
But they also have access to free WiFi everywhere they go, so 3G kinda
doesn't make sense in those densely concentrated areas.
>
> More likely, Apple will drop iPhone and exit the mobile phone market.
Yes, kinda like they are about ready to drop the iPod, it's only selling
137,838 units A DAY... that's a failure in your eyes correct?
> Everybody who could possibly want an iPhone has bought one. There's no
> further market.
Gosh, I've never run into someone so scared of the iPhone. You are
freaking out that Apple is going to take over the cell market, I can see
it in your posts. Well my friend, it's going to happen... just like the
iPod did to the music industry. It's too late for slow moving companies
like Nokia... they just don't have the talent, patents or resources to
compete against Apple.
Get started developing for the iPhone today! You'll be glad you did!
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/
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