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Wishful thinking, it sounds like one of Balmer's pronouncements over the years. You don't see Apple trash-talking potential competitors (well not until the ant
by mattbee 16y ago
Wishful thinking, it sounds like one of Balmer's pronouncements over the years. You don't see Apple trash-talking potential competitors (well not until the antenna thing) in the run up to a product launch, they just quietly polish up a better product than everyone else, and people buy it. Maybe another company could try that.
- wvenable 16y agoApple has trash-talked Microsoft for decades now including in the run up to OS X launches. As for wishful thinking, I may be that but it might also be history repeating itself.
- protomyth 16y agoWell, if history (iPod) repeats itself, I am thinking Apple will do ok.
- houseabsolute 16y agoOr the post-OS X mac, for that matter, which is a very profitable and growing line of business.
- d2viant 16y agoWhat about those ads they ran with the Mac vs PC guy? Apple just trash talks in a more endearing way.
- nanairo 16y agoCompletely agree with you about the trash talk... but don't put the Mac vs. PC ads in the same basket! a) They are ads: they are not making a prediction, just trying to explain the advantages of mac vs. pc (obviously ignoring the disadvantages, but that's ads.) b) Talking of features and how they affect the user is a lot more concrete than "Apple will go to 20-30% market share, because they are not open". Why not 10% then? Why not 50%? If he came up with a quantitative number (and with an interval at that) then I imagine he can explain a bit more. And "closed" is not the bane of the world. Windows is closed and it goes strong. So are many other software. I do believe he may very well be correct, but he should have explained a bit better _why_ that matters. Incidentally as I said I do believe Apple trash talks just as much as the next guy. Just check all those old SJ presentations!