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A Six-Step Plan for Apple

Posted by michael on from the a-man-a-plan-a-canal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Open letter from Alex Salkever to Jobs. One thing in particular strikes me: 'The latest round of attacks on Microsoft software is terrifying. If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.' I think he's got something there."

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  1. Phew! by daeley · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thank the good Lord God we have technology columnist-pundits! What would our poor captains of industry do without their wisdom? Come on, everybody, let's sing a hymn praising BusinessWeek and the scary-smart Alex Salkever! ;)

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  2. Re:Let's not forget... ULESS WE ARE FACT CHECKING by w3weasel · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ...well known factoid that IIS web servers provide the vast majority of the content available on the Internet
    Please try to refrain from making such broad and unqualified statements. Do you mean to say that IIS is responsible for more bytes of data sent on the 'net? Or perhaps that IIS sends out more pageviews? Or that IIS is more widely installed?

    The little freeware server you referenced... (I think you said it was "Apache") does have some influence in the server market. That is to say that it dominates it

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  3. Re:He's just another sheep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The installed base argument is crap -- most of those old machines are running OS 9 and the owners are not buying new software.

    Furthermore it just underlines how crappy Apple's current lineup is, if it's own customers are happy with 5 year old machines and aren't buying new ones.

    Finally, if the installed base is much larger than the marketshare numbers, then it pretty much proves Apple is in serious sales decline.

    (Speaking of "sheep", you have nothing but thoughtless stock fanboy arguments, like the installed base poop. If you wanted to argue for Apple's strategy, you totally failed with that.)