Where's the evidence? I lived through the period,
You made a claim that Apple has
just lost users due to its ARM transition. Provide evidence or drop the claim. You can't make up in words what you lack in data.
Why does it sound like FUD? I didn't state there would be another incompatible CPU transition in Apple's future.
No, you merely made a very pointed
suggestion. That's the very definition of FUD, and it flies in the face of overwhelming facts.
nobody ever got advance notice before Jobs transitioned.
That's not true. Apple announced it was switching to Intel well in advance of when any Intel-based Macs reached the market. This transition period was needed in order for software vendors to port their software, among other things. Intel's addition of AVX was even rumored to be granted as a concession to win Apple's business, since SSE was inferior to PowerPC's Altivec.
Furthermore, in the case of the Intel transition, you're talking about Apple sourcing 3rd party CPUs, whereas their current generation of IP is 100% designed in-house. That's part of the reason it took them a 12-year buildup to reach the point where they could begin to transition their laptops to their ARM-based CPUs. That also makes it a very different proposition for them to transition to anything else.
Apple is not a CPU manufacturer, btw.
Not in the sense of fabrication, but it's misleading to suggest they don't design their own CPUs.
NeXT was a total failure.
They came out with yet-another-workstation during a time when the market and economy wasn't hungry for them (i.e. early 1990's). However, what set them apart was their software technology. This technology and expertise is what Jobs successfully leveraged to make the transformational change that was OS X.
Anyway, the monochrome monitor thing was quickly remedied by the Nextstation Color. However, it's not as if the whole monochrome thing came out of nowhere. I once had an old Sun 360 workstation with a 1280x1024 19" monochrome monitor and the text on that thing was absolutely
beautiful. If you were doing print work (layout, copy editing, etc.), at the time, it truly
was the state of the art, as shadow masks were fairly coarse and obscured fine detail.
Heck, I'd argue that even for writing code, monochrome would let you comfortably use smaller fonts, to squeeze more on the screen. Since text editors had only just begun to do things like syntax highlighting, around that time, you weren't really losing much by doing so.
I can understand why it might seem odd to you, as an outsider.
I repeat, if not for the iPhone, Apple would be gone, today--I have no doubt about that.
Apple's stock price increased by over 28x between the point just before it acquired NeXT and just before the iPhone launched. Say what you want, but you're sorely lacking in any kind of credible evidence supporting this claim.
Tim Cook was under Job's wing for decades. Of course, he was influenced by Jobs...
Cook was Job's handpicked successor.
You lost the plot, here. You had been complaining about their execution during the "clones" era. That pre-dated Jobs' return to Apple, so it's wrong to put that on Jobs or suggest it has anything to do with Cook.
Flashes in the pan..check out their real income/profits--almost all of it comes from their iPhone business. Without that, Apple is toast. Not a criticism, just a fact.
You need to look at trends and separate where they've been from where they're going.
I said nothing about a monitor--it was the *monitor stand*
What you said was "Cook's $1k monitor stands out in my memory...", which the average person would interpret to mean that you're talking about a $1k monitor which stands out in your memory.
Anyway, I definitely do remember the overpriced "wheels" upgrade for the old Mac Pro, and I'll agree that they do indeed have some ridiculously-priced accessories. As a matter of fact, I already stated above that Apple's pricing practices are
just one of the things that turns me off on the company.
I think the main difference between us is that just because I don't like Apple or a lot of its users, it doesn't mean I feel moved to spread FUD about them. Honestly, don't you have better things to do?
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