Edward Richardson

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since September 9, 1999

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September 9, 1999, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
There's no argument here: Apple got left in the dust in what should've been an OS war but wasn't. While they were concentrating on making pretty pink PCs, Microsoft was dominating enterprise with NT, stealing fire from Netscape with IE, and will soon be taking over the database universe from Oracle and Unix with SQL (a 50% increase in sales per quarter supports this). Apple should be thought of as a computer company, NOT a software company. They make cute (or psychotic, depending on how you look at it) looking computers that they try to market on "artists" and "young students" (to be read: people who don't know a damn thing about computers). Apple's motto, "think different" is a little insidious - by doing so you sacrifice gaining experience with the most ubiquitous and versatile OS in the world, the OS that virtually all companies the world over use. "Think different" implies that you don't already. I'm a rebel as much as anybody but why limit yourself? I wouldn't be foolish enough...