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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (163071)	4/7/2006 11:14:21 AM
From: Whitebeard	of 793807

is Windows simpler? I'm a PC guy surrounded all my life by Mac enthusiasts. No cracking problems with OSX, the design beats any PC maker out there, and it's intuitive. or at least my friends tell me it is. Add to that I'm beginning to think Steve Jobs is the one certifiable genius in the corporate sphere. This guy hasn't put a foot wrong since he put John Scully in as CEO of Apple. He used the music industry to create I-Tunes and feed product to his I-Pod. He's changed the entertainment business with those two little numbers, because he proved downloads are viable. Say good-bye to brick and mortar. And pumped his bottom line into the stratosphere. He also now controls Disney, through Pixar, which he bought from George Lucas. Notice the creation of a download platform for movies by the majors a few days ago? The one company excluded was Disney. The entertainment industry hates him, esp. the music biz, and they're out to ruin him, in an area he created single-handedly. Notice the desktop on the new I-Mac? There's a button right there for downloadable entertainment. That's the first in-your-face whisper of convergence. Where's Bill Gates? Still sitting on Vista and his box to plug the internet into your TV. When that happens the world changes, because of the number of PC users. I have nothing personal invested in this, but as an outside observer Jobs hasn't put a foot wrong yet. So I suspect he's betting on winning with this move, inevitable once he started using Intel chips in his machines. He's gotta make moves because of the powers allied against him. I figure this is one of them, but I'm only speculating. Point is this move is playing out against a much broader canvas than just the old PC versus Mac argument.

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