How Would You Save
Apple?
What I Would Like to
See
by
JoAtmon
Hello! First time posting, but a long time reader of this board and the AOL
message boards. I am not a broker, professional invester, or computer programmer.
I am an amateur invester trying to make some money long term. So pardon my
naive outlook.
I would also like to see Apple broken up into divisions. How can one company
compete against Microsoft and Intel (and all those Wintel clone makers).
Apple can trim down into subsidiaries. The software group is obvious. The
hardware is more complicated. I say stop making monitors, printers, scanners,
cameras, etc... because there is just too much competition. I mean I own
(and love) my Mac but I have a Princeton Graphics monitor, and an HP laser
printer. Apple can continue to develop kickass systems that blow away any
Intel machine, but let the clone makers market the product to the masses
and saturate the market (I agreed with Apple when there was rumor of increased
licensing fees).
One wish that may come true is that Rhapsody will run on both Mac and Intels.
Heck, make it one version that runs platform independent (sounds like JAVA
to me!). Offer the blue, red, yellow, or whatever color boxes so that users
can still use their old software. Platform dependent software development
would grind to a screaching halt and all developers start programming for
Rhapsody (with only one version running on both Mac and Intel Rhapsody).
Only one condition, however. The box in the Intel Rhapsody will only run
Windows apps but not Windows itself (because Microsoft will still make money
through Rhapsody sales!). Microsoft's revenues will plummet, Apple's revenues
will sky rocket, and I can finally buy that cool game (written in Rhapsody)
when everyone else does rather than hoping and praying for it to be ported
to the Mac platform.
And then I wake up, right?!
JoAtmon
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