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101 Dumbest Moments In Business
hhutkin writes "It's that time again. Business 2.0 posted their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Of course, they lambast Enron, but they also slam Ginger, a laptop computer made for the steering wheel of your car, Steve Ballmer dancing, and some other really dumb stuff from the past year."
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Apples MacOS X (chasing away its developers) is a BAD mistake.
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They should had tried to keep System 7.6 (bugless) running on all new macs.
Now they are doomed
Carbon 1.0 never shipped (no SCSI etc)
Apple killed itself with crappy slow OS X
The official Carbon document that was presented to Apple's Board of Directors and eventually to their shareholders and 3rd party developers is entitled
Transitioning to Mac OS X : An Overview of the Carbon Programming Interface
This document is 84 pages long and made a couple promises that Apple may break. These promised were made, as a deceitful lie, in order to get everyone to agree to kill Rhapsody and even to totally Kill Copland (Mac OS 8). This document may play a significant pivotal role in future class action lawsuits against Apple Computer because Carbon 1.0 has still not shipped as of March 2002. Apple made a later comment in Feb 2000 that Carbon 1.0 (renumberred to something unspecified) will eventually ship.
If you read this document, you will see that most of Carbon has been completed but critical elements have never been completed at all!!
One example from page 32
"Carbon supports application-level access to ADB, SCSI, and serial devices. However, other hardware devices won1t be accessible from application-level software in Mac OS X."
Ha!
As you may know the only publicly available versions of carbon STILL LACK SCSI MANAGER 4.3 SUPPORT ENTIRELY!!!!!!!!!! There is no way to ever write or port many critical programs to run under Carbon on Mac OS X! And under Mac OS 9.2 Carbon also lacks these Carbon 1.0 things.
Carbon was presented to Apple's Board of Directors as being defined in this 1998 specification manual and Apple after four years, STILL HAS NOT FINISHED CARBON.
The stock price is ailing partly because of this, and developers are giving up on Mac-O-Sux (Mac OS X) entirely, not only for its slow speed and lack of utilities.
If Apple never finishes Carbon 1.0 and ships it as intended in the distributed document called "Transitioning to Mac OS X : An Overview of the Carbon Programming Interface" then Apple may be in serious jeopardy. So far they keep shipping ever restrictive misnumberred versions of Carbon.
In this case the lies contained in the 84 page "Transitioning to Mac OS X : An Overview of the Carbon Programming Interface" will result in something far more interesting than developer rejection.... it will result in Class Action Lawsuits.
And when they start searching the internet for the keywords [CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT APPLE COMPUTER] this obscure post would crop up on slashdot if they display archived anon posts (they dont currently) and a lawyer will read it and realize.... hey.... Apple made forward looking statements in 1998 to the shareholders? The statements were promises? The promises of Carbon 1.0 were pivotal in killing off Mac OS 9 and its sales support? Carbon was a fraud? Really? Oh my god! We HAVE TO GET A HOLD of this incriminating document entitled "Transitioning to Mac OS X : An Overview of the Carbon Programming Interface" Whre can we get it! This will really make our lawsuit case!
And they will be right. Apple lied to developers and shareholders regarding Carbon 1.0 capabilities.
Goodbyte apple I know 10 Mac developers that recently switched to MS Windows
Almost no COMMERICIAL Mac OS X software has been released in 12 months.
Its all freeware and shareware garbage. Look through entire database yourself if you dont beleive me.
40 thousand commercial programs, or more, shipped for MacOS, and less than a one or two hundred SHRINKWRAPPED programs ever shipped for Mac-O-Sux (Mac OS X) so far.
Apple blew it and this should be on the blunder list.
Anyone who gets stuck on the "scooter" aspect of SEGWAY/GINGER/IT is missing out.
( "H.L. Mencken once said no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. ") ... http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/11/0511topnews.html
To be most succinct:
SEGWAY IS NOT ABOUT A SCOOTER
SEGWAY IS ABOUT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES!
Here's how I see things, take a nice light RECLINING LOVESEAT, stick a couple of wheels on the sides, a kind of cowling to protect your feet (ala those amusement rides that go round and round and round), maybe a weather-bubble, and you have THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION.
Of course a self-stabilizing, self-propelled, semi-/fully-autonomous navigation vehicle can take any number of form factors. With that kind of melange of technologies, the practicality of a 3000 pound chunk of metal (which is that heavy as it must carry a heavy motor to pull all that mass -- _and_ to act as armor against all the other 3000 pound chunks of metal) vs. a
+ LIGHT & CHEAP (not 3klbs of complicated parts -- how light could you build a loveseat?)
+ SELF-DRIVING (the segway really is just about fully autonomous -- its substantionally not much more than a notebook computer with a BIG battery AND wheels!)
+ SUPER-COMFI (three words: SEGWAY BY LA-Z-BOY)
+ V E H I C L E (not *just* a scooter)
... can actually change the face of human transportation.
Wistfully, nowadays whenever I see a 'car' on the road, my mind's eye overlays a segway loveseat, and boy oh boy, is that a much nicer picture...
Now about B2.0's take. For my money, the whole hype/anti-hype cycle of this invention illustrates that news typically doesn't matter (though a nod to our kindly hosts here @/.), but what does matter (to 'them') is inciting people's _prejudice_ (pre-judgement; lack of measured judgement) which gets their attention, which allows them to notice the advertising, which is perhaps the more honest 'matter' for the news.
p.s. the XFL (though a travesty of sport, to be sure) sadly got lynched by the news the same way -- in a horrible twist of fate I ended up defending the probable success of the XFL in showing a friend that, in fact, the will of the public has little effect on the SHIT that is slung our way as "entertainment". FWIW IANAFOPS! (I Am Not A Fan Of Professional Sports)
... http://thefanforce.com/gm/archives/00000003.htm
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