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Posted on 05/16/2008 12:31:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
David Alison
Back in 1998 I launched WebSurveyor, a tool for building online surveys. Over time I added some partners (Tom Lueker and Bruce Mancinelli), we got some angel funding and slowly we built up a pretty successful business. Actually it wasn't so slow - we managed to hit the Inc 500 list a couple of years in a row. Without going into too much detail in the begining of 2006 we began talking to some folks about selling the company and finally hitting our equity event. In June of 2006 we sold the company to Austin Ventures, an Austin, TX based venture and equity firm. They bought both us and Perseus, a competitor of ours, and merged the two companies together. I was asked to stay on board and be the CTO of the new venture, now named Vovici. After a little over a year of working as an employee of the company I used to own I decided to move on. I learned a lot about building a company and really want to get a chance to put that experience to good use. I am now in the early stage of starting my next company. I am writing this blog in part because I need a little respite from being in startup mode all the time.
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#1 reason: I can get a PC for $400.
*Ahem!* There isn’t anything *common* about my Macs!
You get what you pay for..... we own 4 Macs and would never waste money on a PC....
Yep, then buy another one next year when that one dies.
I wouldn't want a $400 PC. I wouldn't want a $10 chef's knife either. It's like getting a $20 hooker -- you get what you pay for, and often far more than you wanted.
They were true once, but now that Apples are moving to a PC platform it's changed.
And, someone should tell Dave that Apple now makes "Macs", Not "Macintoshs".
My software isn’t written for Mac. Yes, I know I could use VMWare or something similar to run my PC software on the Mac. Or I could just run the software on the OS it was designed for.
Got an Iphone for my birthday (thank you to the wife). It exceeded my expectations which were high. My wife convinced me to change after my HP notebook was killed, I won’t go back. My only complaint is that I have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM. It will not work on the MAC and I don’t have the intel chip to run windows with my iBook.
As an IT consultant, I love those $400 PCs.
They generate an average of $1200 in support fees (i.e., money that goes in my pocket) per year. Per machine.
Don’t want to see me on a monthly or weekly basis? Don’t buy a PC.
I don’t recommend that people buy those. But they always seem lured in by the $399 price tag and they don’t listen. Then they complain about the bill.
http://www.oup.co.uk/episbn/0-19-923176-1?view=ask
Supported operated systems: Microsoft® Windows® Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Mac OS X 10.4.x or later (PowerPC or Intel). Requires Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (Windows), or PowerPC® G3 500MHz, Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz, or faster processor (Mac), and 128MB of RAM
Try contacting them, they may let you crossgrade for little or nothing.
Behind the pretty plastic of an Apple is a circut board made in China, a chipset, guts of a monitor, HDD, power supply, RAM, that is made by firms with names that have little to do with “apple,” other than they screw the stuff topgether and stick their logo on it.
Your super duper Apple is a nice prepackaged consumer grade machine that’s easy to use and very pretty at an over the top price.
If you want quality or high end dedicated performace you buy a PC or build one yourself. Even the case of an Apple is crap! It’s just pretty.
I also think its humorous how the mac people think they are invulnerable to security risks. MACs are pretty and have their uses. So are actresses but I wouldn’t want to live with one.
MACS are PC’s now, so who cares? Now that they have X86 chips in them like PC’s, we are all in similar boats.
‘As an IT consultant, I love those $400 PCs.”
At $400 you get the performance that most business users need. Its not the $400 PC that keeps you coming back it the lack of standards and unsophisticated users.
$400 PCs are great if thats what you need. Why spend $2000 today unless you have to.
I would call that reality distorted, requiring three fingers is hardly better than only needing one. The other problem I have with Apple is the difficulty in getting apps to use the full screen, especially the browser. Minor problems indeed, but no O/S is perfect.
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