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To: bentway who wrote (44565)	5/8/2005 2:07:42 AM
From: frozenchosen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Tiger in trouble Bought the Tiger 5 pack on opening day. Put it on my good ol' 450 MHz G4 desktop: no problems, worked great Put it on my sons G3 iMac: worked great, no problem Put it on my wife's new G4 iBook: Now she can't get on the internet. Causes DLink router to hang, knocking all of us off. So far many trouble reports in the discussion groups but no resolution for Apple. Plan to put Panther back on tomorrow. What a sorry disappointment. F_C

To: bentway who wrote (44565)	5/8/2005 2:16:25 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213182

It amazing the arguments that come out to tout the weakness in popular items. I thought this to be the highest degree of self distortion: Apple is not alone in trying to find a new paradigm. Sony has spent a quarter of a century massaging the Walkman brand to keep its flame burning. Sony has released waterproof players, ever-thinner designs and even a line specially made for children. Walkman morphed from a cassette player into a CD player in 1984, and a mini-disc player in 1992. Yet despite its ubiquity, the Walkman has limped recently as an MP3 player because Sony's format is harder to use than Apple's. Which all shows that even the most recognizable and stylish brands lose their shine. What is so strange is even though he mentions years, this guy doesn't appear to realize that during those years Sony make a lot of money on the Walkman brand. Sony sold hundreds of millions of them. I expect Apple has very long and profitable run to go with the iPod before something better displaces it.