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From: JF Mezei on 8 Jul 2010 00:01 Leonard Blaisdell wrote: > Mr. Jobs could certainly use that experience as a yardstick. I disagree. Apple was in dismay, rudderless, aiming in many directions. The licencing of MacOS was one of those directions. Just because that action alone didn't singlehandlely save Apple and bring it back to prominence does not mean that it was a flawed direction. There were plenty of other flawed directions that would/could have thwarted any positive impact the licensing decision made. Also, the licensing issue didn't last long enough to provide an objectively measurable metric of whether it was good or bad. Sometimes it takes longer for things to take root. You should note that Apple (under Jobs) did buy PowerComputing and initially used those assets to enable the selling of custom made computers. So Apple did see some positive out of that when you consider that Apple now offers custom made configs on just about all their hardware. > wasn't there at the time, he had to salvage the aftermath. Apple, Inc. > is a *hardware company* that just happens to produce outstanding > software that sells their hardware. Apple is perhaps now more of a hardware design company since it manufactures very little of its own gear anymore. With that in mind, perhaps Jonathan Ives is the next suitor for Jobs' job, as opposed to Schiller, Forstall or Serlet.
From: D.F. Manno on 8 Jul 2010 00:09 In article <k5aZn.15197$4B7.12384(a)newsfe16.iad>, "Dr. Tinto" <drtinto(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: > > > >> FYI: For those of you who don't read Macintouch regularly, there was an > >> interesting post by Ishan Bhattacharya in the iPhone 4 forum > >> <http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/iphone4/index.html#d07jul2010>. > >> The notable quote is: > >> > >> 'The photos of him with Medvedev shows a very sick man (I'm a physician > >> familiar with end-of-life issues, but it doesn't require an MD to see > >> the pronounced muscle wasting apparent).' > > > > Oh please. I don't care who he is, he can't tell much at all from a > > single photo. > > From your emphatic response, I can tell you know very little of the Medical > profession. One picture is worth a thousand words. Comparing two photos is > more like a geometric projection. Several years photos paint a very > accurate picture. That coupled with Jobs irrational behavior lately only > adds to the mix. And leads to a conclusion. You mean like Sen. Bill Frist, M.D., who said he could tell from a video tape that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state, that she "seems to respond to visual stimuli"? A month later, the autopsy showed that half her brain was gone, and what was left was irreversibly damaged in all its regions, including the one responsible for vision. -- D.F. Manno dfmanno(a)mail.com "I want my country forward." (Bill Maher)
From: Leonard Blaisdell on 8 Jul 2010 01:30 In article <4c354da5$0$4824$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > You should note that Apple (under Jobs) did buy PowerComputing and > initially used those assets to enable the selling of custom made > computers. So Apple did see some positive out of that when you consider > that Apple now offers custom made configs on just about all their hardware. I don't think Mr. Jobs ever walked away from any corporate experience that he didn't learn from. Obviously, I'm a fan. > Apple is perhaps now more of a hardware design company since it > manufactures very little of its own gear anymore. I just read a fascinating article by Andy Grove tonight. Here it is. <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm?ca mpaign_id=rss_topStories>. This isn't just an Apple story. > With that in mind, perhaps Jonathan Ives is the next suitor for Jobs' > job, as opposed to Schiller, Forstall or Serlet. May it take a long time for us to see. leo
From: JF Mezei on 8 Jul 2010 03:28 Leonard Blaisdell wrote: > I just read a fascinating article by Andy Grove tonight. Here it is. > <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm?ca > mpaign_id=rss_topStories>. This isn't just an Apple story. Many thanks for the link. Very good article.
From: XX on 8 Jul 2010 09:28
"D.F. Manno" <dfmanno(a)mail.com> wrote in message news:dfmanno-253A7F.00091308072010(a)news.albasani.net... > In article <k5aZn.15197$4B7.12384(a)newsfe16.iad>, > "Dr. Tinto" <drtinto(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: >> > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: >> > >> >> FYI: For those of you who don't read Macintouch regularly, there was >> >> an >> >> interesting post by Ishan Bhattacharya in the iPhone 4 forum >> >> <http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/iphone4/index.html#d07jul2010>. >> >> The notable quote is: >> >> >> >> 'The photos of him with Medvedev shows a very sick man (I'm a >> >> physician >> >> familiar with end-of-life issues, but it doesn't require an MD to see >> >> the pronounced muscle wasting apparent).' >> > >> > Oh please. I don't care who he is, he can't tell much at all from a >> > single photo. >> >> From your emphatic response, I can tell you know very little of the >> Medical >> profession. One picture is worth a thousand words. Comparing two photos >> is >> more like a geometric projection. Several years photos paint a very >> accurate picture. That coupled with Jobs irrational behavior lately only >> adds to the mix. And leads to a conclusion. > > You mean like Sen. Bill Frist, M.D., who said he could tell from a video > tape that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state, that > she "seems to respond to visual stimuli"? A month later, the autopsy > showed that half her brain was gone, and what was left was irreversibly > damaged in all its regions, including the one responsible for vision. So what does that supposedly prove? That you're not in the medical field? The brain has the capability of re-shunting neural pathways. It happens every day. Stick to what you know best, nothing. |