January 15, 2006 10:00 AM PST
Jobs suggests Dell should eat his words
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Computer Inc. is negatively biased. The headlines, the choice of
words in the articles - everything seems to point to that cnet has
made it's mind up about portraying Apple in as a "bad" company.
Anyone agree?
Sometimes CNET gets it right and sometimes they get it wrong.
They will learn, just like everyone else, that Apple is going to shake up the stagnant IT industry in ways they never dreamt of.
headline about something negative about Apple, I can often tell
where it's coming from just by their choice of words.
Makes me not trust ANYTHING I read on c/net (which is becoming
less & less as time goes on).
as well as other sites, this article comes wholly from The New York
Times.
As it says on the bottom of the article: "Entire contents, Copyright
© 2006 The New York Times. All rights reserved."
news.com was one of the few competitiors on the landscape
(around 1997).
Now they seem to be slightly less consistently negative.
It's all about page hits now. Anything Apple or iPod related gets
serious page views and an inordinate amount of comments. They
know this, obviously. That's the reason this story.
which are they?! pick one and stick with it.
personally i think they're just reporting what is happening and there hasnt been specific focus on the opinions of the reporter..
personally i love apple and i dont see where the negative bias is being shown in the article
Blame CNET for picking it up and giving it more of an audience that it deserves. But, don't blame CNET for writing it.
I don't care about the article about two rich guys talking like 7 year-old boys by the swings.
Who cares.
Jobs should close and sell off his company. In other words,
without provocation, publically declared him a loser running a
worthless company.
About six years later, Jobs sends an email to his own employees
to let them know that Dell was wrong, they've surpassed Dell,
and they should feel proud. In other words, congratulating his
employees on their success.
Only sounds like one seven year old boy to me.
literally on the verge of purchasing brand new Dell desktop and
laptop systems. After reading his comment on Apple he turned me
off from Dell altogether.
Congrats to Apple on leading technology, god knows where we
would be without them or if we listened to Mr. Dell super-dumb
comments.
Jobs should close and sell off his company. In other words,
without provocation, publically declared him a loser running a
worthless company.
About six years later, Jobs sends an email to his own employees
to let them know that Dell was wrong, they've surpassed Dell,
and they should feel proud. In other words, congratulating his
employees on their success.
Which sounds more arrogant?
Now how about getting some games on your platform, hmm?
This is a commonly overstated view. I have more games on my Mac
than I have time to play, including the most popular: World of
Warcraft, Halo, Doom, SimCity, The Sims, Tiger Woods, Tour of
Duty, Unreal Tournament, etc, etc...
available? Let me quote Ross Perot when I say "Now that's just sad."
You want to play games, pay a few hundred and buy a console.
Better yet, get your pasty white butt outside and see the world,
boy. Nothing wrong with playing a computer game now and then,
but if you need a multi-thousand dollar machine to keep up your
sad addiction to computer games, I'd venture that you're part of the
problem (i.e. fat and out of shape world) and not part of the
solution.
never said anything so provactive as Dell should "eat his words."
He only said that Dell didn't predict the future so well. I am sure
that Dell himself would agree.
It's a frickin' miracle!!!!!!! Even for long term, die hard Mac fanatics!
The guy also happens to manage Pixar! AND come back from a life-threatening crisis.
AND also just so happened to have kick started the whole "PC" thing!
AND made CEO keynotes actually WORTH watching!
Still true today!
Was that a DIG at DELL?
Does anyone doubt the influence Macs have on the advertising sector?! This is right inside Apple territory! How many creative directors don't hate Windows?! ;-)
However, if you take a closer look at the fundamentals, you'd notice that Apple P/E ratios is more than TWICE that of Dell's -- a whopping 55! This is unhealthy, especially for a company that essentially relies on one product line. This P/E ratio is unsustainable for the mid to long term; it would need a real miracle from Mr. Jobs to keep this up.
Dell still enjoys more than twice the earning of Apple.
Where the heck is Dell going?!
Now that I have the option of running Windows and Linux on an Apple computer, should there be a handful of applications or games I want to load up, why the heck would I ever buy anything other than a Mac?
Dell has a great online store experience? So does Apple.
astounding are more accurate words to describe it.
Keep your head in the sand, or the origice you actually use. Speak
no more of fanciful tales dancing in your tiny brain.
an Apple computer is going to cost you 3000 dollars.
Shove your lies where the sun does not shine
Anywho Dell is lame, wake me up when they eclipse Microsoft.
So they respond with very "civilized" way (like pointing others are fools, diluted, bla, bla..) And the web sites like News.com earns money in page hits.
In the end, they are just computers and users are happy at their level. If they are not happy, they would switch if they have extra money lying around.
Sounds about right. Users are where they are for reasonably valid
reasons, and while they aren't necessarily happy about it, they have
no obvious alternative. When such an alternative shows up, the
user makes his move.
That does sort of sum it up. And it makes an awful lot of fan-boy
posting just useless wastes of time.
Like previous posters have mentioned. If it works then it works! Save headaches and hours. And more importantly if it saves money (TCO, ROI), THEN that's something every corporation will care about. Not how "nice" a mac might look.
with an It department of about four guys per site. The Mac users
were essentially their own IT group. Then, some management
dork got a wild hair to switch to PC's. Software wasn't the
reason, the Mac's already had the software needed. But there
was some fog about the PC being the platform for business. In a
nutshell, the switch was made, the IT department blew up to
about 20 guys per site, and none of the users had a clue about
how to keep their computers running. Productivity took a hell of
a beating.
It was a brilliant decision which the company survived. But, I just
wonder how much farther the company could have gone if the
management dork had been more intelligent.
Till then, Apple computers is for home and small group of graphic users.