On the BusinessWeek.com site about what we should do with our $12 billion cash stash. See here. Writer says we should start a venture fund and use it to get software companies to write programs for our platform. You know what? I just sent this around to my guys to consider. Much love, BusinessWeek.
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8 comments:
Dear Steve,
I saw the BusinessWeek article, too. WOW! Could I use the $12b to redesign Vista? I promise it will be compatible with Macs. Or not. Your choice.
Bill
P.S. I could really use the money. Vista sales are not really getting my rocks off, if you know what I mean.
Just buy AutoCad. Then do a "Shake" on them.
Find the PC software monopolies and buy them out.
"Ve have Vays of making you Svitch"
I like the AutoCad idea. While you're at it, how about Dragon Naturally Speaking?
"If you can't beat them, buy them"
Absolutely anon, the industry needs a good Shaking down!
Also, I'd advise some sneaky action to get other countries to wake up to the Mac's existence. The BBC for example forever assume computer = crudtastic pc. Look at this review of Vista I saw on their front page today... what's missing? Oh just THE FRIGGIN ALTERNATIVE!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6407419.stm
"Wait for half a year until the driver issues are settled and then buy a new PC.
Once that's in place, you can upgrade and tinker with your old machine, to give to your parents or children."
Dude, my *old* machine will be running Leopard in a few weeks (nudge to Steve) just fine and my next one won't be running Vista either, schmuck!
The only mention Apple get in the article is for "failing" to get iTunes on Vista. I point this out because the BBC are not some little douche shop, but are assumed by nearly everyone in Britain to be reasonable and accurate. Yet as soon as it comes to tech they're a toss outfit.
I'm sure many a Mac sparse nation in Europe and elsewhere suffer from the same thing. A media which just tows the Microsoft line because they're just assumed to be the only game in town.
That's Apple's challenge especially outside America. I'm sure you have creative ways to deal with it. Keep us informed!
I think the last post is on to something. Architects are creative professionals, among the core constituencies for the Mac. But Autocad dominates the market. Take a stake and force a universal binary, you'd take share quickly.
<< Writer says we should start a venture fund and use it to get software companies to write programs for our platform >>
Heh? If the Mac was introduced today, Steve would have the good taste to disallow third-party software development, wouldn't he? The iPhone and iPod are so much cleaner precisely because third-parties can't muck them up with their ungorgeous hacks.
I can do everything I need to do on my Mac without getting sullied by non-Apple software, thank Jobs. If I need to run Microsoft Office or Photoschlock, I go to my sterile isolation booth and fire up a PC, then when I'm done I run myself through a lengthy decontamination procedure (you don't want to know).
Yeah, but AutoCad is the Windows of CAD software. Filled with legacy commands and other cruft. Like Windows, it would be better off starting over with a clean slate. But you can't because its users are used to crap and don't believe in alternatives.
Yep, that's totally true. Autocad users don't use it because it's pretty or because it's fun to use or because it's solid.... They use it because that's what everyone else uses. Sad but true. By the way, the company that owns Autocad is Autoesk and they are huge... Don't even entertain the thought. It would kill Apple.
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