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Re#31, Gosh, I wish. I meant 3 times your investment… 300%.
#32 Yeah but…
A lot of it’s failure is about perception.
Remember the early days of XP, the “Fischer-Price” OS ?
#27
Which is why I’m not using Vista. ;->
>>Step 3. J-school publishes this to incoming freshmen:
Haw, that was hilarious. Could “J-School” have its tongue any further up Apples tight little puckered hole?
Jeez. I’ve been using Macs for 20 years (on and off), and I think they’re pretty good machines, but this “brick your iPhone” and “propagandize the schools until they’re dead” stuff is really making me re-think. Maybe Microsoft is NOT the anti-Christ. Maybe it’s Steve Jobs and Steve “I’m banging a 40-something D-lister comedienne” Wozniak.
Sad. Very sad.
You guys are so short sighted. Journalist students are the ones that will be writing the stories posting the blogs appearing on the 6 o’clock news and working on the daily show. This is about the future not what you did twenty years ago and not just about a stupid phone.
This shows Steve is thinking ahead not just next quarter.
#37 Yeah. He’s been doing this for ever. Apple always had a strong presence on the Educational sector.
Every student has a lot Mac experience when at school.
But then they grow up, and hit reality.
“So, can I run OS X on my Dell? No? Why not? How about unlocking my iPhone? Tell me again what a brick is? How about running anything other than iTunes on my iPod? No? Isn’t this monopolistic behavior? Come to think of it, hasn’t Apple always behaved this way?”
If all this bothers you, BUY SOMETHING ELSE!!! Steve Jobs did not come to your house, hold a gun to your head and forced you to buy an iPod, iPhone or to use iTunes.
when I go by an Apple store it is full of people, young and old. now that Mac has boot-camp and crossover etc. you will see a lot of people switching to Mac! I expect OS 10.5 to be the deciding factor for a lot of “switchers” including me. my last horrible experience with HP support convinces me that the PC for many users is about to end. Mac does cost more, but if you use it for 5 years and it works well, its not that expensive!
#39. Bingo. Apple has been trying to get their big push into academia to pay off since the Apple IIe days. Ain’t happened.
#41. I find two things interesting (1) the thing that caused the iPod to take off was porting iTunes to Windows; and (2) the thing that caused the Mac to take off was enabling it to run Windows.
One could reasonably say that Apple’s recent success is due to the platform provided by …
oops.
I am seriously considering making my next laptop a Mac, but I ain’t no fanboy. Apple’s recent success being enabled by Windows makes Jobs’ snarky comments seem a bit stupid.
Lots of apples a day, apparently didn’t keep the doctor away, there is a dead zebra on the floor on the bottom right of the frame.
#44, Simon, there is a dead zebra on the floor on the bottom right of the frame.
Nice find. Even non-sentients get p*ssed when they find out their iPhone has been “bricked.”