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Thinking Beyond the Box at Apple
Business Week ^
| OCTOBER 9, 2002
| Charles Haddad
Posted on 10/11/2002 12:49:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To the PC industry, such thinking is lethal. It represents not just the bottoming out of a business cycle, but a seismic shift. It's the death of the business model that drove the industry for the past 20 years. Now, even as computers have raced ahead in speed, sales have slowed -- down 5% last year alone, according to Gartner Group. Declines were unheard of in the 1990s, when double-digit annual growth was the norm, some years even approaching 30%.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: applecomputer; computing; macuserlist; techindex
To: *tech_index; Mathlete; Apple Pan Dowdy; grundle; beckett; billorites; One More Time; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Today's consumers spurn even the fastest PCs with microprocessors surpassing 2.4 gigahertz -- four times the top speed three years ago. Well, when it comes bundled with an operating system that slows it down to half of the speed of the 1999 machine, why would anyone want it?
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posted on
10/11/2002 1:07:55 PM PDT
by
balrog666
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; *Macuser_list
bump
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Why drop a thousand bucks for a faster computer?" My thoughts exactly.
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posted on
10/11/2002 1:50:36 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
It's a guy thing- You're not a real man unless you have a gig of RAM...
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posted on
10/11/2002 2:02:17 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: Mr. K
"It's a guy thing- You're not a real man unless you have a gig of RAM..." Oh, I see. Check my profile then get back with me.
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posted on
10/11/2002 2:07:30 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Mr. K
Click
here, one of my drinking buddies in the late 60's.
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posted on
10/11/2002 2:16:58 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Mr. K
I only have half a Gig on my home built rig!
But I have 136 Gig of rotating storage! have another 18 Gig to install, not sure I need it though!
To: blam
LOL- it was meant to be a joke, not a slight against you blam! my sincere apologies if I offended
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posted on
10/13/2002 1:44:14 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: Mr. K
"LOL- it was meant to be a joke, not a slight against you blam! my sincere apologies if I offended."Nah. No problem, no offense taken. (BTW.. I know very little about computers)
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posted on
10/13/2002 4:18:51 PM PDT
by
blam
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