Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Judy Perry]

I know, I know.  sniffle.

Besides, the Rosetta thingy looks interesting, but I suspect it will be
around about as long, if  not less long, than Classic emulation.

We're gonna need heat shields for aluminum-cased laptops...

And, wasn't it you who recently told another poster that s/he was wrong
about the 2% marketshare quote?

Judy

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Artificial demand is how Apple keeps itself and its vendors in sales.
> They can't do it just a 2.5% marketshare, and if you take iPods out of
> the picture their revenue position rather bites.
>
> Apple can only stay afloat by selling the same product to the same
> customers over and over.  We pay an annual OS X tax of $139, even though
> the first two (arguably three) releases were of beta quality.  Sure,
> there are the occassional switchers.  But I doubt many of the 2 million
> Tiger sales went to them.
>
> For vendors, Apple was the only major vendor who transitioned to USB
> without continuing support for legacy ports.  This created an artificial
> demand for new peripherals, and a lot of vendors who were leaving
> decided to stay to cash in.  Apple needs vendors, vendors need
> disproportionate sales to justify the disproportionate R&D.  It's good
> for everyone -- except the consumer who gets the bill.
>
> So if we love the Mac platform enough to have endured these things for
> so long, is a third set of arbitrary paid upgrades really that much more
> expensive than the two we've already paid for?
>
> Like a friend keeps telling me, "It's an economic democracy:  one
> dollar, one vote".  If we want to vote for Apple we pony up the cash.
>
> If not, there's always Linux.  It's already available for both x86 and
> PPC. ;)