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To: ptanner who wrote (64660)	11/29/2001 11:46:04 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

PT, I am saddened to see how Jobs completed the destruction of Apple. Their only hope was to allow clones that would expand the installed base. Clones that used standard parts and cases, like we have ATX cases, ATX power supplies etc, so there could be Apple SD shops. Apple would then get it's revenue from licence fees that were a proportion of the selling price of the system. The error in the first clones was the fixed fee, so the SD shops made top end Apples and left the low end to Apple. Apple should have rectified this with a proportional structure. Instead they killed clones and allowed Jobs bad marketing skills full rein....hence the cube. the colored imacs were also bad for sales. they limited the Apple to certain markets as the huse were not suitable. In addition APple wants to make huge margins on everything. Only hope for Apple= Dell direct model with licenced SD shops. Apple would then be able to compete with the SD shops since their whoelesale tier would vanish. Dealers would get eliminated. Too bad, they are dying as we speak. Almost all have collateral PC busineses now. I recall when Apple had 100% share., I recall when Intel had 100% share, how the mighty fall. Bill