[Info-vax] Steve Jobes [was: Apple says ...]

[Paul Sture]

In article <j6qvgq$7da$1 at solani.org>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> JF Mezei schrieb:
> 
> > In fact, LION (the latest OS release) was designed to ignore the
> > established "fan base" (dropping support for older applications and UI
> > features that were well estabished) in favour of glitz that attracts an
> > even greater market potential.
> 
> Which means nothing else than that they are rapidly
> following the M$ way.
> Dropping PPC (unnecessarily) in favor of intel was the first step
> to join the evil empire.

Weren't there heat and power consumption problems for laptops using PPC?

> Dropping OSX server in favor of M$'s clouds was one of the next.
> I guess it'll take not too long until they'll dump
> the Mac altogether.

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/10

Audio: 1 hour 25 minutes:

"John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are briefly amused by iPhone 5 rumors, 
then dive head first into a ruthless analysis of Apple¹s online 
services, past and present. The sad conclusion: Apple sucks at what 
Google is good at, and vice versa."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/23/apple-data-center-dreamin/

'Google knows how to run a server farm. Siracusa is not convinced that 
Apple does. And given the company's sorry history in the online space, 
putting one of the world's largest data center in Apple's hands, he 
says, is "like giving a machine gun to a baby."'

-- 
Paul Sture