Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again

gsfprez writes "Its been a while ... and strangely, the world almost seemed empty without the constant drumbeat of how Apple is on the verge of going out of business. If you're a fan like i am, then you're in luck, because this Canadian tech journalist didn't get the memo that Apple's been going out of business longer than most tech journalists have been in business. And besides, someone needs to let Robert Thomson know: when writing a story on how Apple is about to die, you have to call them "beleaguered". Come on, that's Tech Journalism 101, people. In any case, he brings up no new points to bolster his argument: he confuses his personal inability to use third-party software that works fine for most of us with legitimate bad third-party support, and uses this to draw his illogical conclusion. Illogical because it's the same reasons/unrealized conclusions that were the staple of tech journalism from 1985-1999."

Comments

I don't understand

[Stanley Feinbaum]

Considering how blatently overpriced most apple systems are, I would assume they are making a HUGE markup on hardware sales.

Or maybe not. Maybe the public is realizing you can get a very formidible windows based computer for half the price of a cheap mac.

I am a mac user btw, and although I love OS X, buying this system really hurt my wallet.

Re:I don't understand

[Billly Gates]

In this economy everyone is trying to save a buck. Bussinesses make up the vast majority of computer sales not consumers. They are the ones puting freezes on new equipment purchases and shipping our jobs away to India for 4k a year( grrr).

In the last recession a decade ago apple machines were faster, had much better graphics thanks to windows3.1 in the pc world, had more software like word perfect, and most of the photo editing software was only available on the mac or was several versions behind on the pc. They were worth their price if you were a graphics firm or if you had people in advertising.

Today Windows machines are cheaper, mcuh faster, and integrate well with the the proprietary Microsoft products running everything from VB client-server apps, to running Outlook with groupware functions that hook into MS Exchange server, to running ms access, to integrating with MS active directory. Notice how many times I used "ms". That is the other problem besides cost cutting. Its standardizing in proprietary environments.

The bussiness world is now in paying for their mistakes in standardizing in Microsoft products. Its a proprietary mess that they need to support and eliminating the amount of platforms to support is what the CTO's want to lower support costs.

Unless apple hurries up quickly with the powerpc970 they will be in big trouble. Motorolla screwed them royally in the ass. If I were Steve Jobs I would never do bussiness with them again no matter what they offer. The opensource movement hopefully will stop the proprietary invasion that started with Microsoft in the 90's. That has hurt Apple more then anything. Now people are not so blinded by fud and hype but these places that use to purchase macs now purchase only dell's or hp's based on company policy.

Re:So how is this news?

[gearheadsmp]

X is happening shortly after you boot up any recent Apple computer.

Re:So how is this news?

[neuroticia]

Silly me, I thought Apple released Safari to delete its users Home folders. =]

-Sara

Re:So how is this news?

[neuroticia]

X is happening about 15 minutes after I first press the power button on my G3 keyboard, zap pram to make it stop giving me the "out of scan range" message because the zapping of pram never holds, finally finishes booting up, downloads all the updates that it needs to download, has me press "reboot", and reboots, waits for me to zap pram again, and boots.

Speedy. >=] I'd like to see a WINDOWS computer do that.

-Sara

Re:So how is this news?

[gilesjuk]

Well it's nice how Apple turn to the open source community when they're in need of something to save their ass (ie a good web browser), shame Apple can't put something back (ie. Quicktime for Linux).

Make the OS open/free or the hardware cloneable and they might get more people using the damn things :)