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Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM
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."
Can you imagine? The instabilities you've always wanted (on a Mac) but never thought you could afford?
Electrons are free; it is moving them that becomes expensive.
I just had a weird waking dream. Charlie Chaplain, on roller skates, was brandishing his cane at the Big Brother screen in the 1984 commercial.
I need more coffee...
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I think the first thing that would happen if such a merger took place would be that all the copies and references to the "big brother" superbowl commercial would somehow mysteriously disappear.
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Seriously, how implausible would this have sounded 15 years ago?
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
That's about all this is.
Mark my word, it ain't gonna happen.
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Mesh? Feasible? Synergy?! Higher than 10% buzzword-to-intelligence ratio. Post ignored.
do not read this line twice.
Here's another: They knew that the Slashdotters were getting tired of the normal "Apple is going bankrupt" rumor and we needed to spice things up with a " is going to buy Apple" story.
Q. What to you get when you combine Apple and IBM?
A. IBM.
Shamelessly stolen from Apple Confidential.
Fashion designers wear suits too, only they look good doing it, instead of like broken-down salarymen. Picture the Board at IBM showing up wearing bespoke mauve mohair suits, silk carnation through the lapel, and razor-sharp mod cuts draped across their faces, and you'll understand the effect this merger could have in IBMs corporate "culture".
I have just overcome my fear of sharks in the toilet. I hope you realize you've just ruined my life.
-Peter
IBM doesn't care, they stole the SysV code for linux, why not steal ATi and nVidias?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Or is this just Apple's way of taking over everything that start with the letter I? Ipod, Imac, IBM.....
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
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Noone ever got fired for buying IBM.
...well, Steve Jobs might be, if this deal goes ahead. ;-)
Uhhh, do you use a hair sharpener, or is it just naturally pointy?
By the way, both companies have a heavy-duty nerd culture in the depths, hidden away where no one sees it much. Apple glosses it over with hippie chic. IBM uses yuppie chic instead. Underneath that *ppie chic, they're more alike than anyone wants to admit.
Basically, the only groups that would have to be kept separate would be the marketing departments. And even then, the marketers wouldn't be stepping on each others' shoes, since Apple sells end-user gadgetry and IBM is now a server-room iron and polish vendor.
Even armchair PHB's miss the clue boat. Jeez...
How has no one yet brought up the old adage:
IBM was created by guys who drank beer.
Apple was created by guys who smoked pot.
Careful when mixing substances!!! ;)
As an IBMer I can say that we often have enough of both to get much done
1. Find a slashdot-reading friend who hasn't read slashdot yet today.
2. Show him the text of the parent post
3. Ask him to guess in which front-page slashdot story this bizarre comment was actually relevant
Hilarity ensues.
Free, legal music for iTunes users.
> What if they ported AIX to the PowerMac?
That's like buying a new Ferrari and replacing the seats with milk cartons and repainting it with spray paint.
ABM? I Be Apple?
That would be amusing to say the least.
Mummified?
Do you also have a tiny Egyptian tribe living in your toilet?
IBM's not stupid. They are going to sell their version of the iPod.
1.) IBM's iPod will be Black and blue.
2.) It's going to have a baby-tie around it. And you can never take it off!
3.) It'll come with a case that looks like a business suit.
4.) It won't be called iPod anymore. I'll just have a serial number.
5.) iPod will be resized to fit in a T-shirt chest pocket only.
6.) It'll play some monotone corporate tune everything it turns on.
Basically IBM would change the plastics to black and focus on selling to corporations.
I will be first in line for a iBM 17" PowerBook(black anodized aluminum).
Still, until Steve Jobs starts knocking on doors looking to sell Apple, it's just silly to talk about stuff like this- it's just not going to happen unless it's Steve's idea... rrright. That's what he's been building the company up for, a sale! Ha!
Considering Steve has his iTunes and iPod business going great guns, perhaps the Mac business isn't as important to Apple as it once was.
Maybe Steve is looking to sell his PC division, too!
That joke was more ironic in the 90's, when I was working at Kaleida (a joint venture of IBM and Apple).
-Don
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scott mcneally, bill gates and steve jobs all become best friends and go golfing together every thursday; osama bin laden admits that george bush is really a nice guy; and aliens really did abduct elvis, now he's back, and he's going on tour... when did /. become the national enquirer?
a polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate change.
...IBM.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear