On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:29 PM, lakestevensdental <lakestevensdental@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: \> Good luck carrying that non-Apple albatross around your neck... It's > not like there's nothing to learn from the successful. > > Always, Fred C ...or non-Micro$oft, or non-Linux, or... it all depends on whose fan-boy you're talking to. The sad fact is that they're *all* albatrosses in one way or another. And it all depends on how you measure success as to how you view Apple in general. If it weren't for the iPod, Apple would have died an ugly death a long time ago. They were in a very serious crisis when the iPod came out. They're still far from dominant in the computer market, and probably never will be. They don't even dominate the PC graphics/video editing market any more. I for one will never buy an Apple product. Where do you think Micro$oft learned their worst business tactics and product strategies? The Apple IIe was the last Apple product worth buying - it's been downhill ever since. Once they killed the Franklin Ace, there's been no looking back. At least PC architecture has always been and still is freely interchangeable and modifiable and open enough to allow competition. And I will never understand those who insist that Apple products are so easy to use. They aren't. They're counter-intuitive and illogical, and rely much more on style than on substance. I guess they make sense to people who don't... Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
