RE: [Leica] OT - Apple comments

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

DR. BLACKTAPE CAN'T HELP BUT WONDERING...

Doesn't this debate belong on the "Bizarre Religious Cults List," rather
than the LUG? ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Andre Jean
> Quintal
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 1:30 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] OT - Apple comments
>
>
> >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
>
>
>