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Apple's Colossal Disappointment?

Posted by Zonk on from the more-a-blunder-than-anything-else dept.

Mudzy writes "Michael Roberson, founder of Linspire, has an article at The TechZone talking about Apple's 'Colossal Disappointment' for not porting Mac OS X to PC after they announced the move to Intel processors. He discuss why this could be a mistake." From the article: "Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops."

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  1. Re:Excuse Me by PlasticMonkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haha, I hate the guy and Linspire so _very_ much.
    Where's the guy who killed the Russian spammer?

  2. OK, admit it... by rhesuspieces00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    this article is flamebait. we should be able to mod it down. Zonk's karma should be imploding right now.

  3. Michael who? by bedouin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lin what?

    Exactly.

  4. Re:Apple isn't stupid by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look at Solaris x86 or Be

    Citing two dead OSes as examples might not be the best tack.

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  5. Re:Apple isn't stupid by BestNicksRTaken · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...by being "better", surely iPod doesn't win on low price.

    Glad you put the quotes around "better" there, as hardware-wise the iPod is one of the worst media players available, they also have pretty poor sound output and signal-to-noise ratio.

    The iPod only wins on marketing and UI - same as the Mac I guess....

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