Marq,
I agree that the comparisons are fair. One question, though:
Why is it that Apple is expected to sell Motorola chips? Out of (misguided?) loyalty to these superior chips, Intel buys advertising. Microsoft buys advertising. Where's Motorola?
Apple's hobbled and aging OS (though still more modern than DOS) is supposed to make the case that the rest of the processor world (X86) is sorely lacking?
Why can't anyone see past all this crap. Win95/NT and MacOS, and anything others out there that are an even somewhat commercially viable OS software, are multiple-crutch, "support what we know," don't-scare-the-end-user/IS-dept. operating systems. What matters is vision.
The reason that this thread gets so overwrought with partisanship is that we're thinking like investors and expecting things to follow a logical path.
Honestly, Jobs could be flushing Apple down the toilet on Monday, or changing the world again. Nobody knows, not even him!
There are better odds in Vegas, I'm just crossing my fingers.
Dirk |
