T-Mobile is a division of Deutsche Telekom AG, a telco giant that is notorious in Europe for its poor service. Death and destruction to all former state-owned conglomerates! (BT, Telefónica, TeliaSonera, Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom etc.)
Actually, you may be absolutely right. Maybe the name change from PowerBook to MacBook Pro had little to do with the new Intel processor. After all, the name PowerBook existed before the arrival of PPC chips. (All proper Mac historians know that the PB 100 had a 16 MHz Motorola 68000 processor.) Emotionally, though, I think the MacBook/MacBook Pro moniker lacks the punch and charisma of the PowerBook name.
As it happens, I am an almost fanatical Mac professional myself.
I pledge allegiance to the Apple of Cupertino, and to the Macintosh for which it stands. One nation under Steve, indivisible, with user-friendliness and iPods for all.
Yeah, yada yada, yap yap, whateavah. But the names MacBook Pro and MacBook are soooo stupid! People will call both products lines MacBook, and will not understand the name change.
Isn't it possible the health differences may be food related, and that even the rather greasy English cuisine, if you could call it that, is better than the American junk culture of pizza, McDonald's and KFC? Not much bettter, perhaps, but on the whole less fatty, sugary and salty? It would be interesting to see a comparison with data from France, Spain and Italy. French and Mediterranean food is regarded as the healthiest in the world.
So you mean to say that Microsoft is a top-notch company that makes technologically sound products? But is it really? Windows and other MS products are a source of worries for many IT managers - a security risk and a support problem. I don't think that is a sound technology or products you can trust.
I dislike Windows and Microsoft and all it stands for intensely, it truly is a third-rate company that makes technologically unsound products. But maybe if McNealy had spent most of his energy trying to focus Sun's products and markering instead of cracking jokes about Microsoft and their products and marketing, maybe Sun would be on top of things.
In my view, Sun is a very dysfunctional company. They make good servers, yes, but so does the competition (primarily IBM and HP). What is the product strategy, the forward thinking, the future of Sun? Where are the reasons people should stick to Sun's offerings, specifically?
I wish Sun the best, I really do. It once was THE company in Silicon Valley. But from what I've seen of Schwartz, I doubt things will move in the right direction any time soon.
The new CEO will have to cut deep and hard into the heart of Sun, and get rid of all the dead-end projects. Once he has thrown out the old crud, he can focus on products. Only superior products can save Sun.
I don't hate Microsoft, nor do I hate XP or Vista. I have no doubt Vista will be an improvement over its predecessor, at least in some ways. But frankly, I don't care, I am not impressed, and I have no use for Windows at all. I use Mac OS X, a very solid, elegant and mature system with an abundance of supported hardware and software. And if Apple somehow happened to be swallowed up by a giant earthquake or tsunami, I would just switch to Linux, another very solid system. In a couple of years I will hopefully have forgotten all about Windows.
I recall that a semiconductor engineer mentioned "optical computing" to me at least 20 years ago when I was a kid, and I was thrilled by it. Will this involve the interconnects only, or the whole CPU? Maybe the whole system could be built into an optical chip?
"Microsoft's not evil..." Oh yeah? So the guy is a Mac user. Hurrah, good for him, and so am I and millions of other people. So he is a former UNIX programmer. That's great! But it has nothing to do with the very limited content of the article, so I don't give a flying fuck to be honest. The "Mac user", "Unix programmer" and "Microsoft's not evil" rubbish kind of gives it away immediately, doesn't it? What a smelly load of untenterresting cack.
Wouldn't it be great to have a job where you could write any outrageously mindless article on your laptop, moronic stories concocted during lengthy shit sessions - and get paid for it! Then millions of angry slashdotters will hear about it and maybe click a certain link, and this will generate advertising revenue for PC World. Brilliant! I want to do it, but I would use a pseudonym.
I hope PC World doesn't actually pay Dvorak real money to write that rubbish. He has no idea what he is talking about, but he claims to know... the truth and... everything.
Apple's great advantage is the fusion of excellent hardware and software. They will never be sold independently of each other.
I must admit, I still haven't figured out how Boot Camp and Windows will fit into this picture, but I'm working on it. Maybe it's the new Classic, I don't know. Dvorak obviously thinks he's got it figured out.
Sure, MS is working on a bunch of new stuff, and they have the resources to do it. But there are a number of reasons that suggests those new products and services will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
One reason is they don't have to be revolutionary. The stuff Microsoft makes needs to make sure MS keeps a certain market they already dominate, and, if a competitor shows up, such as Apple, Google, Sony or Oracle, to leverage the huge user base of Windows and Office to make inroads in that area too, and also to buy the technology needed to do that. The problem facing Microsoft is that the competition is much more tenacious and better now than in the 1990s and earlier.
Another problem is that the PC market is not growing exponentially any more. Businesses feel they don't need to upgrade their hardware, operating systems or office suites as often as they used to. Microsoft needs to find other sources of revenue: services.
They need to make somthing like iTunes Music Store, but for TV shows and games, not only music, and they need to do it before Apple or Sony gets something running. No harm in that. Let them try. But it won't be a major leap forward. It won't be geared towards creating a wow factor, but towards real sales. Microsoft is a great sales machine, not a great technology company. They don't need to be.
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T-Mobile is a division of Deutsche Telekom AG, a telco giant that is notorious in Europe for its poor service. Death and destruction to all former state-owned conglomerates! (BT, Telefónica, TeliaSonera, Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom etc.)
Actually, you may be absolutely right. Maybe the name change from PowerBook to MacBook Pro had little to do with the new Intel processor. After all, the name PowerBook existed before the arrival of PPC chips. (All proper Mac historians know that the PB 100 had a 16 MHz Motorola 68000 processor.) Emotionally, though, I think the MacBook/MacBook Pro moniker lacks the punch and charisma of the PowerBook name.
I pledge allegiance to the Apple of Cupertino, and to the Macintosh for which it stands. One nation under Steve, indivisible, with user-friendliness and iPods for all.
Yeah, yada yada, yap yap, whateavah. But the names MacBook Pro and MacBook are soooo stupid! People will call both products lines MacBook, and will not understand the name change.
No, no, no. The world was created in six days by a dude called God. Everybody know this is a fact, cuz it's taught in school.
Isn't it possible the health differences may be food related, and that even the rather greasy English cuisine, if you could call it that, is better than the American junk culture of pizza, McDonald's and KFC? Not much bettter, perhaps, but on the whole less fatty, sugary and salty? It would be interesting to see a comparison with data from France, Spain and Italy. French and Mediterranean food is regarded as the healthiest in the world.
So you mean to say that Microsoft is a top-notch company that makes technologically sound products? But is it really? Windows and other MS products are a source of worries for many IT managers - a security risk and a support problem. I don't think that is a sound technology or products you can trust.
In my view, Sun is a very dysfunctional company. They make good servers, yes, but so does the competition (primarily IBM and HP). What is the product strategy, the forward thinking, the future of Sun? Where are the reasons people should stick to Sun's offerings, specifically?
I wish Sun the best, I really do. It once was THE company in Silicon Valley. But from what I've seen of Schwartz, I doubt things will move in the right direction any time soon.
The new CEO will have to cut deep and hard into the heart of Sun, and get rid of all the dead-end projects. Once he has thrown out the old crud, he can focus on products. Only superior products can save Sun.
I wonder if mine is processor upgradeable? Will it run Mac OS X 10.5?
I don't hate Microsoft, nor do I hate XP or Vista. I have no doubt Vista will be an improvement over its predecessor, at least in some ways. But frankly, I don't care, I am not impressed, and I have no use for Windows at all. I use Mac OS X, a very solid, elegant and mature system with an abundance of supported hardware and software. And if Apple somehow happened to be swallowed up by a giant earthquake or tsunami, I would just switch to Linux, another very solid system. In a couple of years I will hopefully have forgotten all about Windows.
"May the Schwartz be with you." God knows Sun needs a helping hand. Maybe they should let Steve Jobs take over the company? Or sell everything to IBM?
I recall that a semiconductor engineer mentioned "optical computing" to me at least 20 years ago when I was a kid, and I was thrilled by it. Will this involve the interconnects only, or the whole CPU? Maybe the whole system could be built into an optical chip?
"Microsoft's not evil..." Oh yeah? So the guy is a Mac user. Hurrah, good for him, and so am I and millions of other people. So he is a former UNIX programmer. That's great! But it has nothing to do with the very limited content of the article, so I don't give a flying fuck to be honest. The "Mac user", "Unix programmer" and "Microsoft's not evil" rubbish kind of gives it away immediately, doesn't it? What a smelly load of untenterresting cack.
Wouldn't it be great to have a job where you could write any outrageously mindless article on your laptop, moronic stories concocted during lengthy shit sessions - and get paid for it! Then millions of angry slashdotters will hear about it and maybe click a certain link, and this will generate advertising revenue for PC World. Brilliant! I want to do it, but I would use a pseudonym.
Apple's great advantage is the fusion of excellent hardware and software. They will never be sold independently of each other.
I must admit, I still haven't figured out how Boot Camp and Windows will fit into this picture, but I'm working on it. Maybe it's the new Classic, I don't know. Dvorak obviously thinks he's got it figured out.
One reason is they don't have to be revolutionary. The stuff Microsoft makes needs to make sure MS keeps a certain market they already dominate, and, if a competitor shows up, such as Apple, Google, Sony or Oracle, to leverage the huge user base of Windows and Office to make inroads in that area too, and also to buy the technology needed to do that. The problem facing Microsoft is that the competition is much more tenacious and better now than in the 1990s and earlier.
Another problem is that the PC market is not growing exponentially any more. Businesses feel they don't need to upgrade their hardware, operating systems or office suites as often as they used to. Microsoft needs to find other sources of revenue: services.
They need to make somthing like iTunes Music Store, but for TV shows and games, not only music, and they need to do it before Apple or Sony gets something running. No harm in that. Let them try. But it won't be a major leap forward. It won't be geared towards creating a wow factor, but towards real sales. Microsoft is a great sales machine, not a great technology company. They don't need to be.