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

So how is this news?

[kaltkalt]

This thread says "they say X is happening, but X clearly is not happening." How is that news?

Re:So how is this news?

[IXI]

How about that:

"In soviet russia business is running out of apples."

Re:So how is this news?

[Anonymous Coward]

The reality is they say X is happening, it doesn't fit with the slashdot worldview, (but is true regardless) so it gets posted here to be mocked.

I'm one of the ex apple faithful, and after seeing others experiences with them, I'm GLAD I'm out of it. Friends with iSubs getting kernel panics because apple can't get off their arses to write a decent driver for it. Applications DO just 'quit' now, more than ever. Slightly different in that before OSX, that would bring down the OS. now it just loses your data. Just ends up saving 2 minutes rebooting, and little else.

No matter how much the phrase "intuitive gui" is used around macs, it doesn't make it true. Desktops like KDE -far- outstrip the mac in usability, drag & drop, and the logic behind options. know what the problem with the mac UI is? it corrupts the everyuser, mr & ms normal, who get used to it immediately, then when they come to something like KDE they really need to try hard to get anything done. You can see it for yourself anywhere newbies are picking up KDE.

And don't get me started on the hardware quality of my iBook. It was a last-chance for Apple, for me, and they let me down more than any previous Mac I'd bought. No chance in hell I'm going back to that.

this is not news

[zephc]

this is only news on slashdot.

Oh, and in Canada.

SO tempted... to put...lyrics... to MST3K... Canada song....

Blame Canada!

[PissingInTheWind]

With all their beady little eyes,
And flappin heads so full of lies.

Sorry for that racist comment.

Microsoft buys Apple's Way

[standards]

The other day I started to configure Windows XP on my Girlfriend's new laptop.

It sucked. Lots of things just weren't right. And I had slow dial-up modem speeds. And her old USBserial adapter just wasn't recognized.

Not only that, but Office '97 didn't work right. And I had to download about 50 MB of software just to update XP so it would work in a more serure, more reliable manner.

It's been said before: Microsoft sucks. But now it's really true. They're history.

Re:Hrmm

[Master Bait]

No foolin'. I love to bait the Mac Nazis with my (absolutely true) trolls.

Apple as a business entity is not dying in the same sense that AOL-Time-Warner is, they're in perpetual hibernation like Western Union. Remember Western Union? Imagine that... a high-tech company of the 19th century! A telegraph monopoly. Swimming in dollars! Yes, they still survive as a tiny send-cash outfit. They even show a profit.

I'm giving this example because Apple will probably continue to mostly show a profit, even if their sales hit $100,000 and their market share goes from today's 2.3% down to .00023%.

That said, the Apple Way depends on huge margins, which is why their market share IS at 2.3%. So what if they only sell three computers, they still have huge profit margins!

The latest yuk, yuk, yuk I had was reading that the ECS/PCCHIPS conglomerate makes Apple's iBooks. I love to read Apple fan's NewSpeak comments about how they believe Apple's products are of outstanding quality! I bet most haven't ever heard of PCCHIPS.

I'm in the process of buying a used Mac on ebay these last few weeks. The prices are very high, showing to me (at least) that there is plenty of demand for Macs out there, but the supply of new, manufactured Macs is so overpriced that Apple continues to lose market share. Who woulda thunk? Apple's ridiculous high-margin business model will be taught in universities some day.

Troll on, baby.

Re:I don't understand

[Bu5h]

But he still has money left in his bank account.

And two mouse buttons.

Will build computers for food

[t0ny]

I guess its time for Steve Jobs to go begging Bill Gates for another handout.

Re:I don't think so..

[money_shot]

My laptop as 3D Max, Premiere, After Effects, Sound Forge, Illustrator, Wise Installer, Visual Studio, and a bunch of other things on it.

Did I mention is has an ATI FireGL? A high quality 1200x1600 display?

No, I didn't buy it. The place I work for bought it, like a few thousands others (most of them not as high end as mine though.) That is where the meat and potatos are for you mac users. I'm laughing at you and your little mac toys! ;)

Seriously though, no one buys macs for 3D or business use, which is what most computers for businesses are bought for. That leaves a few flaky designers who are more interested in looking cool than getting work done. Oh yea, lets not forget the musicians. Anyone remember the Video Toaster? Not really? There's a reason for that...

- money_shot

Apple blows monkeys

[Satan's Minion 666]

Pffffh. Apple. Enjoy your pipedream, you fucking hosers.