[Leica] OT - Apple comments

[Andre Jean Quintal <megamax@abacom.com>]

>A little objectivity here, please? I, too, plan on getting a G4 one
>of these days for my PhotoShop work. But 5 percent of the market is not
>"back from the dead." Apple could have been where Microsoft is today - had
>they had Gates marketing genius. Instead, they are "back from the dead" as a
>boutique manufacturer.

	--> Apple was managed by a man lacking vision
	who never gave much to the computer world
	much to Pepsi and even more to his ego;
	it nearly toppled the firm.

	--> Enter the natural leader Steve Jobs,
	made to order for this creative and daring corporation.
	Here's marketing genius at work: gain back all market
	share, get out of the red and manage to show substantial
	profits + create an even more daring "alien" computer,
	the iMAC and sway millions of NEW customers who
	actually use their computer most every day + go wild
	and build a 128 bit $2500 workstation computer that can hold
	its own against many mainframes in use today, the G4 +
	go about building a multi pronged business strategy
	that's so believable that the stocks went from abysmal
	to stellar, worth more than 4 to 5 times, then some,
	what they were when the ego pampering "marketing guys"
	had brought Apple near extinction.

	Please: don't anybody ever tell me about Bill Gates
	who has DESTROYED so many good firms, so many
	careers he ought to get shot this very day !

	--> If anybody ever tells you a "work flow" Windows environment
	is "just like a Mac", just try getting rid of a file
	in less than 20 seconds on the piece of cra_
	then go to a MAC: zip ... zap !
	Try your best with all sorts of "illegal" things on a PC
	and see the MAC OS ( 8.1+ ) just breeze through just about
	any hurdle and get the job done without even having to think
	you're using a computer. Add the REAL FUN.

	Not that PCs can't be good machines, just than there are
	very few Mac users who'd  E N J O Y  using a PC by comparison.

	Yes: I sold Macintosh computers for a year and luv them.
	No: I'll never do business with Dell Computer again,
	though it really is excellent quality equipment.
	Bill Gates' Windows ?  No thanks.

	SONY's major personnel policy is "the right people for the
	right job". Leica just did that, will adjust and survive.

	Think different !  ( How did YOU ever get a Leica ??? )

	Thank you,

	Andre Jean Quintal