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Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM

Posted by Hemos on from the an-unlikely-marriage dept.

Anonymous writes "The Register has a comment piece of the marriage (speculative) between IBM and Apple. Although wildly speculative, it is not improbable. With IBM already supplying PowerPCs to Apple and Apple having not signed up to IBM's PowerPC consortia, there are hints in this get-together. Apple would also supply IBM with the "lifestyle" side of things. If it does happen, it would be most interesting."

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  1. Re:Can you imagine? by B747SP · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Can you imagine, a fleet of iBooks or Powerbooks that all, without exception, suffer uneconomical-to-repair hardware failures at precisely three years +/- three months of age?

    That's what an IBM/Apple merger means to me.

    In my extended experience, IBM are the experts at designing equipment to fail. Their gear simply cannot be relied upon in a commercial setting. Worthless junk, designed for the sole porpoise of stripping money out of commercial customers, that's my IBM.

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