Apple should be making open hardware and open software, giving warm lunches to the poor, repair the national debt, pay for NATO troops in Kosovo, and pay off my student loans....
enough with just making a semi-open operating system...
folks - like it or not - and i know you dont - clones were killing Apple Inc. Period.
Microsoft survives because it sells OSs and applications. Intel survives because it sells hardware. Apple survives because it sells complete systems (ever heard of the iMac?)
Like it or not (again, many here don't like it), Apple must make money. It cannot live by giving away its software (free X server) and its hardware (clones) and make Apple.com a f__ing web portal.
Apple sells system solutions - they sell tools to get tasks accomplished. Their products are computers with operating systems on them.
If their product is better than Dell's product, then buy it. If not, buy the Dell.
You people act like Dell and Gateway are hemmoraging money by actually selling closed-box systems? Guess what? Not everyone has the time nor the inclination to put together computers- they want servers and clients - tools - to get work done. If a small art company doesn't want to hire someone that would frequent/., then they buy a pregonfigured Apple system.
Like it or not, packaged solutions are becoming very popular - if you doubt that, check Dell, Gateway, or Compaq's stock price.
if you don't want a packaged solution and want to live in this freakzoid serenghetti plain of obscure hardware configs with marginally compatible Cyrix processors and motherboards - go ahead - but computers are tools - and for too long, the computers have been tooling us. ____
Any site with this amount of traffic is gonna get killed - if not by the server, then by the bandwidth to the server.
Look, the alternatives to this new Apple open source fray are Linux and......
between linux and $250 for the ability to run my MacOS apps alongside - i make enough money to pay $250 for a WebObjects server.
Right now, for $6k, i can run a medium sized company's email, web, ftp, ecommerce, etc all on one box prepackaged, and ready to go - and dont tell me that you can do with with Linux, because you can't.
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Apple should be making open hardware and open software, giving warm lunches to the poor, repair the national debt, pay for NATO troops in Kosovo, and pay off my student loans....
/., then they buy a pregonfigured Apple system.
enough with just making a semi-open operating system...
folks - like it or not - and i know you dont - clones were killing Apple Inc. Period.
Microsoft survives because it sells OSs and applications.
Intel survives because it sells hardware.
Apple survives because it sells complete systems (ever heard of the iMac?)
Like it or not (again, many here don't like it), Apple must make money. It cannot live by giving away its software (free X server) and its hardware (clones) and make Apple.com a f__ing web portal.
Apple sells system solutions - they sell tools to get tasks accomplished. Their products are computers with operating systems on them.
If their product is better than Dell's product, then buy it. If not, buy the Dell.
You people act like Dell and Gateway are hemmoraging money by actually selling closed-box systems? Guess what? Not everyone has the time nor the inclination to put together computers- they want servers and clients - tools - to get work done. If a small art company doesn't want to hire someone that would frequent
Like it or not, packaged solutions are becoming very popular - if you doubt that, check Dell, Gateway, or Compaq's stock price.
if you don't want a packaged solution and want to live in this freakzoid serenghetti plain of obscure hardware configs with marginally compatible Cyrix processors and motherboards - go ahead - but computers are tools - and for too long, the computers have been tooling us.
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Apple's servers are giving me 25k/sec downloads (i just downloaded emacs from www.publicsource.apple.com)
they aren't using linux, okay? so sue them.
some people just love to bitch about the paint job when Apple is out hanging wallpaper
AOL is usually pretty slow this time of day...
got my account 10 minutes ago, no trouble.
Why are people with HOTMAIL acocunts so whiney?
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Any site with this amount of traffic is gonna get killed - if not by the server, then by the bandwidth to the server.
Look, the alternatives to this new Apple open source fray are Linux and
between linux and $250 for the ability to run my MacOS apps alongside - i make enough money to pay $250 for a WebObjects server.
Right now, for $6k, i can run a medium sized company's email, web, ftp, ecommerce, etc all on one box prepackaged, and ready to go - and dont tell me that you can do with with Linux, because you can't.