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Funny you should mention it, back issues of the Apple Doomsday Clock show a trend in Apple that is moving towards a cult. The Apple Doomsday Clock used to follow Apple's fascist and cult-like trends. The author even wrote why he was doing it and cited all of the tech Apple stole from. He even found a parody to the 'Think Different' movement at the time.

Funny you should mention it, back issues of the Apple Doomsday Clock show a trend in Apple that is moving towards a cult. The Apple Doomsday Clock used to follow Apple's fascist and cult-like trends. The author even wrote why he was doing it and cited all of the tech Apple stole from. He even found a parody to the 'Think Different' movement at the time.

Funny you should mention it, back issues of the Apple Doomsday Clock show a trend in Apple that is moving towards a cult. The Apple Doomsday Clock used to follow Apple's fascist and cult-like trends. The author even wrote why he was doing it and cited all of the tech Apple stole from. He even found a parody to the 'Think Different' movement at the time.

Funny you should mention it, back issues of the Apple Doomsday Clock show a trend in Apple that is moving towards a cult. The Apple Doomsday Clock used to follow Apple's fascist and cult-like trends. The author even wrote why he was doing it and cited all of the tech Apple stole from. He even found a parody to the 'Think Different' movement at the time.

"Apple's hardware engineering might have been technically inferior in some respects, but they have consistently had the right product at the right time, and the sense to hire some good marketers."

The Apple II was the right product at the right time.

The Apple III was the wrong product at the right time -- functionality and functioning both subordinated to Steve Jobs's design decisions and unwillingness to compromise those decisions to correct a mistake.

The Lisa was the wrong product at the wrong time -- ten thousand dollars a pop (that would be about thirty thousand today) in the middle of a recession?

The Macintosh was the right product at the wrong time -- more than a decade would pass before hardware sufficiently fast for graphics-based computing would be available. We're barely there *now*.

"In the end, the history of the 16-bit computer industry was the result a very strange series of events, where the truly, wildly, and utterly inferior product eventually became the dominant platform, the IBM PC. Strange world."

IBM and Apple were both deeply divided: much of IBM wanted the PC to go away and die as it was cutting into sales of big iron; Steve Jobs wanted the Apple II to go away and die because it was insufficiently hip --

http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/clock/weak5.ht ml

-- and it was insufficient lawsuits against clone-makers by IBM that made the difference.

the obligatory Don Heretzfeldt reference:

http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/sanfranciscojo urnal.com/images/mail_1_9_02.gif

Anyway: The Apple Doomsday Clock has also been a target of the MacJihad trying to shut it down.

See Jihad Speak for more info.

Anyway Apple grew because the Jihadists made newsletters, web pages, spammed newsgroups and mailing lists saying how great Apple is. Then people believed them. No matter how bad or poorly Apple treats its customers, the Jihadists are there to whip them into shape. Getting no money from Apple, they are like singing Apple's praises. They also knock down anyone silly enough to promote a technology other than Apple's.

Apple also promised CHRP/POP support in MacOS 8.0 and Rhapsody. I see now that Rhapsody's replacement OSX does not have CHRP/POP support and MacOS 8.X and higher has limited support (no mouse or keyboard support, no video, etc.) so Apple never kept its promises. Until Apple bought out NeXT, they would never have made a true VM and PMT and all the other things that Copland promised. Only by going to Unix was Apple able to give the customers what they wanted.

Web sites such as The Apple Doomsday Clock talked about all the mistakes Apple made and why they just don't get it.

Face it, the iMac was nothing but what the Microsoft/Intel NetPC promised which was based on the Sun/Oracle/Netscape Network Computer. All Apple did was make it popular with translucent plastic and a case shape that resembles a woman's breast from behind the iMac case.

Jihad Speak for more info.

Also visit http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/clock for the real ADC.

Linux scares both Apple and Microsoft, and for $20 a pop a CD-ROM can be bought from a computer store having Linux 2.2 on it, or Linux 2.2 can be downloaded for free over the Internet.

The MacJihad, those that evangelize Apple and Macintosh products, are like Sheep being led to the slaught of their platform eventually by Apple's insane actions! How can you stick with a company that changes its OS Designs every six months? Many developers I know that wanted to support MacOS have ended up moving to BeOS or Linux because at least those platforms are stable and don't have an ever changing API and OS Structure. Coupland, Rhapsody, Mac OSX, where will the OS Designs end? How much Vaporware is going to pass from Apple before the MacJihad figure out that Apple really doesn't have a decent OS and has been fooling them all these years into believe that a decent Apple OS will be coming out "Real Soon NoW!" Honest, Steve Jobs swears by it, and you know he would never lie to you! :)

I would rather use Linux 2.2 now, than Mac OSX later. Who cares if Linux is harder to set up than Mac OSX, at least Linux is here, now, and not Vaporware!

Face facts, Apple is run by cowards and arrogent engineers that think their way is the only way. One day they will have to wake up and face reality that they might have to downsize again to make the company profitable and outsource jobs to other companies. Until eventually one day, maybe in 2006, Apple won't have very much left to it and will have to shut down.

The Apple Doomsday Clock is ticking! Visit these web pages for more info!

The Apple Doomsday Clock Club

The Apple Doomsday Clock Web Page