Bob; I wish to get Apple to succeed.I feel it has been managed to failure by previous management of all stripes. I feel that the previous management was dumb as can be. The only good thing to issue from them was restricted cloning. I wish this to be opened up to a parallel of the Wintel clone situation, however with a flow back of the funds for the OS, BIOS and CPU(parts of) flow back to Apple to offset hardware fabrication losses. I feel this will expand the installed base, thus causing more products both hard and soft to be made by various people.
To say that Apples are more upgradeable than Wintels because you can go to the store and buy another bigger and better Apple ignores the basis of my upgradeability concept.
The CHCP)? is that the acronym) for a standard box might be a step in the right direction if the box and power supply are a standard and new motherboards can be purchased to upgrade it. If it is like a Dell, which also has no upgrade path, or an IBM, which also has no upgrade path, or Compaq, which also has no upgrade path, then it is not upgradeable. You can add memory, change cards, get a faster CPU(if the clock can be changed) but no real upgrade path.
That is Apple. The screwdriver shop clones have a standard case footprint(internally) which takes all standard power supplies, and all std motherboards, current and in the future. Dell, IBM, Compaq and Apple do not want upgradeability. They want you to buy another complete box from Apple. The used car lots that some dealers operate are not upgradeability, they are resale of used.new computers.
I just figured it out, you did not realize what upgradeability is!!, and that pallid degree Apple offers is all you can get.
I challenge you to buy a Mac 512, and upgrade it to a Power PC motherboard. Anyone can buy a std 386 and replace the motherboard with a pentium PRO. To bring it all the way up, you need extra memory, and a lerger hard drive, and perhaps a VGA monitor if the old one had a TTL monochrome, or leave the TTL mono, it still works.
This upgrade path is a good part of the reason for the Wintel success. At the same time the software has all been compatible from the 8088 onwards. DOS based stuff running in DOS windows.(some software has become so obsolete that it will not run, and is considered useless, but a lower % of the installed total than Apple suffers from this problem(but bigger as there are more PC programs by a ten factor)
I am not using it as a reason to buy a PC, I am saying that the market has used it that way. I am saying the idea is good, do it also. The old way is caput.
I would make the same criticism of Dell, Compaq and IBM. Make a standard box. But they want the captured client. No upgrade path, so they must buy a new box. The total PC numbers are still growing, and that is why Dell, Compaq, IBM are still getting bigger numbers(that and their marketing and advertising which fools people into buying, I get people all the time wanting to upgrade a Dell, with a new motherboard, no way, Dell is no fool, he has marketed a box you can only change cards/CPU/Memory/drives on, he denies you that freedom, and so does Apple for sales reasons alone)
Dell and the rest will soon see a decline after the rate of growth has declined and the generic Wintels keep gaining share at their expense.
What are you trying to accomplish on this thread? Keep the status quo and see Apple keep going down the drain.
I want Apple to succeed, it is people like you that have dragged Apple down, with your I'm all right attitude, that Apple is better when the market says no.
Bill
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