<< My difficulty with your very healthy and welcome skepticism is that you seem overly fixated on today and yesterday and not much on tomorrow. >>
Soup, if you went to the doctor and she said: "don't be overly fixated with the last twenty malpractice suits I lost, and look for tomorrow" would you still let her operate on you?
That is why I consider it so positive that Apple fired the board and Amelio. It means a brand new "medical" team. Moreover, the new board members are tried and true "doctors", e.g. Larry Ellison, IBM's CFO, Intuit CEO....
There are then only a few concerns looking towards the future. Concerns that I have expressed here before:
1) Could it be too little to late?
2) Will Steve Jobs go back to closed systems, non-rhapsody strategy (he did not mention rhapsody even once in his Boston speech)?
3) IMHO, Apple's market share is beyond the point of recovery on its own. That is why it is so important for future Macs to be *out*of*the*box* Windows compatible.
For example, when the SysAdmin installed WinNT on my desktop I did not even flinch. Why? because I knew I could still use all the Win3.11 programs I had on my box, plus I would gain the famed NT stability. |
