Did you mean a Sony Vaio U101, a Sony Vaio VGN-A690, a Sony Vaio R505JL or a Sony Vaio PCG-C1VE?
Is there some computer randomizer that comes up with these product codes?
Those "command-line centric guys" are such a tiny fraction of the computing world as to be virtually irrelevant to the discussion. Ask your Aunt Bea how she'd use a computer if she had no mouse.
It's fair to say the invention of the pointing device is what made the personal computer revolution possible.
Mail.app vs. Entourage is a similarly lopsided fight - except this time it's Apple that loses.
Call me a heretic but I enjoy the streamlined, consolidated approach... instead of having mail, address book, ical and whatnot all open at once, I get one stop.
Microsoft got Office v.X down pretty good, IMO.
No, they wouldn't.
Apple is about developing software that sells hardware.
OS X sells the boxes.
iTunes sells the iPods.
etc.
Apple's business model is to provide the complete solution - not piecemeal bits. Everything is symbiotically linked.
For example - I have a PowerBook G4, an iPod shuffle and use the iTunes Music Store. All of those pieces fit together to provide me with the one-stop computing solution I need. Everything works together. One source. One company. One logo.
That's Apple's magic bullet. Going software-only would defeat that entire model.
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Did you mean a Sony Vaio U101, a Sony Vaio VGN-A690, a Sony Vaio R505JL or a Sony Vaio PCG-C1VE? Is there some computer randomizer that comes up with these product codes?
Those "command-line centric guys" are such a tiny fraction of the computing world as to be virtually irrelevant to the discussion. Ask your Aunt Bea how she'd use a computer if she had no mouse.
It's fair to say the invention of the pointing device is what made the personal computer revolution possible.
Mail.app vs. Entourage is a similarly lopsided fight - except this time it's Apple that loses. Call me a heretic but I enjoy the streamlined, consolidated approach... instead of having mail, address book, ical and whatnot all open at once, I get one stop. Microsoft got Office v.X down pretty good, IMO.
No, they wouldn't. Apple is about developing software that sells hardware. OS X sells the boxes. iTunes sells the iPods. etc. Apple's business model is to provide the complete solution - not piecemeal bits. Everything is symbiotically linked. For example - I have a PowerBook G4, an iPod shuffle and use the iTunes Music Store. All of those pieces fit together to provide me with the one-stop computing solution I need. Everything works together. One source. One company. One logo. That's Apple's magic bullet. Going software-only would defeat that entire model.