See here. Money quote: "When we do, eventually, look back — and a decade or so from now, we will -- we'll try to pinpoint the moment when Apple's Macintosh and OS X began to pick up significant steam. Was it when OS X first launched, or the arrival of the first all-in-one, flat-panel iMac? Perhaps it was the moment when Apple chose Intel (and maybe Intel chose Apple)? Maybe it was the lackluster launch and sales performance of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system?"
Um, no. It was the moment when they announced that I was back. Never before has one man had such a profound effect on a company, an industry -- indeed, an entire economy. Business schools will be teaching case studies about this for decades to come. It humbles me to think about it.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
PC Mag says Apple will take over the desktop PC market
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"It humbles me to think about it."
Perfect.
I for one welcome our new PC Market overlords.
first!
Lol. Yeah I think it was the starting point, but the tipping point is OSX and the Ipod. Most people wouldn't even give Apple a look until the Ipod (me included. I just happy with 95) Then the Ipod came out and I fell in love with it. The Ipod is the gateway drug in to Apple. and since this happens in high school, many people who are going to college now are looking at Macs for college (explains like why 90 percent of Mac sales are laptops) and if they can afford it or it's for their major (my reason, art and communication) then it's the right choice. And as these people share it at college and they get other's hooked into the brand. And once you get completly hooked, Windows just isn't the same.
I'm just so grateful that a man like you exists.
But FSJ, you technically didn't exist until 2006....
That "I" was awesome!
No kidding. Give that man a raise!
Be humble all you want, but you secretly gloated that the string of former CEO's, starting with John (can I have a Pepsi, please) Sculley, were basically dog shit.
You were the Summers Eve that Apple, and the valley as a whole, truly needed.
The iCEO thing was brilliant, BTW. Too bad you had to steal it from me, though.
Whatever. So long as money can be made trading the bracket. The stock is now so oversold that retail will start thinking about scaling in so around about Wednesday, drop a good iRumor to keep the wind in their sails.
Nooo.. The more popular Mac becomes, the more spyware and junk comes to Mac. If I'm going to have to put up with that crap, I might as well have a computer that I can upgrade. *cough* I'm lookin' at you, iMac.
When I grow up I wanna be humble like you, FSJ, will you teach me?
That said... what if you make a [new] career in non polluting cars, non oppressing governments or healthy fast food that taste good?
Maybe you can show all of us it's your thing: taking over a dying company, to finish giving the whole industry that company's involved in a new era, a new economy. You've done it in consumers tech. Why not saving the world in the process?
FSJ,
This is truly related, well in a way. Since it was announced that the iPhone can upload photo's via a wireless connection, when are we going to see a iLife Windows version.
I see through your evil plans to rule the world. Sure it's coming slowly with the release of iTunes and Safari for Windows and soon iLife.
RCM
No, FSJ has always existed, he merely had yet to take corporeal form--sort of like Voldemort pre-Goblet of Fire.
feel the love..
I don't know, it doesn't seem like a fun idea to me. I don't like paying $4,000 for a machine that can do the same things as a $2,000 machine (except the latter runs Windows)...just not a fun idea...
Oh but wait, I could get a Mac Mini that doesn't even have an option for a good video card for $600 bucks!
No thank you.
All your base belong to Steve!
Have a nice day. Too bad you couldn't be an original. You've never had it in you Dan.
we worship the ground you walk on sir! all hail!
i dunno, but i think you had me at hello...
Oh, puh-leeze, the date goes back to the day that you invented the original Apple while Woz brought you lemonade.
FSJ, I'm not sure if you know how to be humble. But I digress. Did you ever hit on the blonde javelin thrower in the commercial?
it's all in the RDF
There never was a time when FSJ was not. He reposes, in aeternam, in his virtual form in the vastness of the unified field. When the world is in need of a renaissance of childlike wonder and beautiful tsatskes, the unified field stirs and brings forth the perfection that is FSJ. The rest, as they say, is history.
Bokay, so what do we need to do to get a high colonic cleanse of this blog to free the Apple Faithful from the likes of freecode and those annoying Windoze lover that have flocked to the site ever since Santa was de-frocked?
I mean really?
I use my MBP 17" in dual mode (i.e. I run OS X 10 and WInDoze XP SP2,000) because I HAVE to run WinDoze for some company apps. I use a Mac because I CAN.
I don't know, it doesn't seem like a fun idea to me. I don't like paying $4,000 for a machine that can do the same things as a $2,000 machine (except the latter runs Windows)...just not a fun idea...
Well the $2,000 machine that runs Windows is obviously a Mac... but WTF is the $4,000 machine? A Dell equipped with all the extras to equal a mac? (Maybe some of that is extra you're charged to leave the craplets -- including Vista -- off.) Does Sun still make workstations?
"I don't know, it doesn't seem like a fun idea to me. I don't like paying $4,000 for a machine that can do the same things as a $2,000 machine (except the latter runs Windows)...just not a fun idea..."
Yes, like I can buy a $10,000 Kia that does the exact same thing as a $65,000 Lexus. I mean why bother with the Lexus when you can get a Kia and save $55,000? They all have an engine, 4 doors, wheels, AC/PW/DL, etc. I just don't understand...
yeah...
and I can have a lovely Dell/Windows piece-'o-crapola sitting on my real wood desk/return/hutch that will really impress my clients as to what a tight-azz dumb flock I am,
OR,
I can have a beautifully crafted piece of art; that also happens to be a workstation; that also happens to be extremely portable; that also happens to friggin' WORK ((even when it's forced to run (shudder) Windows))...
yeah...
Gosh geez, I can't think of a single reason why I bought my MBP 17" Core 2 Duo.
Oh, and the KIA comparison? It ISN'T a comparison that actually applies here. I'd love to see any WinTel laptop that was SIX TIMES cheaper than my MBP 17 that could run BOTH OS X 10 and Windows.
Hell, show me one that's six times cheaper than the cheapest MacBook!
You find one of those? Let me know...
FSJ and I won't be holding our collective breaths.
Rock on, FSJ. Great stuff.
And satire schools will be studying this post as the perfect setup and punchline. Love that second paragraph ... classic FSJ ;-)
Please can we have the original (real) FSJ back? I don't know who this guy is but seriously Forbes this is appalling. Thanks for screwing up what was a fun part of my day.
I'm going to watch this blog for a week but if we don't get the real deal back, I'm unsubscribing to this feed.
What exactly should the b-schools teach to future generations about you and Apple? That managers should build a great company, then leave after bringing in frigtards who don't know shit about the market and run the ship almost on the ground, and finally come back after ten years to be celebrated as the saviour? That's so rare that it doesn't make for a good case study (even Michael Dell couldn't pull it off, and he is in the same industry). It only makes for a great "Gospel according to Steve", which by the way would be a good new title for a second blog or book ;-)
Notafan-- we will miss you. You've added a lot to the blog. Good luck in your future endeavors.
pc mag is jez sayin' now what i've said since 1987, when i got my first mac se.
20 years late to the party, but welcome on the already over-crowded bandwagon, you filthy hack media ho's.
20 years ahead of my time, as usual. it's all a matter of patience.
It began when RSJ returned, but the "tipping point" will be when MacIntel computers appeared.
"It humbles me to think about it."
You lie like a rug.
Geez,
If Steve's last comment isn't the highest form of satire?
Then no one knows what satire is!
Freaking hilarious...
Having tried and debugged the Vista OS on some friends computers, I am now sure I will rather die than upgrading my XP to Vista. And i've become to think my only exit door is definitely Mac OSx.
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