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- From: jjm70@ccc.amdahl.com (Jerry Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <76U702Un2fZK01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 04:24:33 GMT
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com>
- Reply-To: jjm70@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Jerry Miller)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
- >History was made today. IBM's stock price dropped to below its book
- >value of 55 today, to close at 51 points per share on news that Big
- >Blue would be shedding another 25,000 workers and cutting their
- >dividend. On the very same day, Apple Computer stock closed at 55
- >points per share, 4 points higher than that of Big Blue.
- >
- >When the Apple Macintosh was first introduced, IBM derided this computer
- >as "a toy" claiming that mice were too difficult for users to comprehend
- >and use. They laughed at the little toaster of a machine: "The business
- >world will never accept it." "No one could use this for any serious
- >commercial development."
-
- I don't want to rain on your parade too badly but the original 128k Macintosh
- was just that - a toy. And an incredibly expensive one at that. I have never
- met anyone who claimed to do any "serious commercial development" with one.
-
- As a matter of fact, it wasn't until the Mac II was introduced that the
- business community started getting serious about the Macintosh. In any case
- Apple has had little or nothing to do with the current problems facing IBM.
- I propose that Intel, Microsoft, Compaq, Sun and maybe even Dell/Gateway/AST
- have each individually had more fiscal impact on IBM than Apple.
-
- In other words, Apple laughing at IBM is like a mouse laughing at an elephant
- that trips over a log...
-
- >But who's laughing now? IBM is on the skids and scrambling to stay
- >alive. Apple Computer is experiencing record sales and revenues
- >thanks to their new Powerbook computers.
- >
- >Innovation and attention to the customer in the form of ergonomic design
- >and well engineered products are what distinguish Apple's computers from
- >the utter crap being churned out by IBM and the PC clone manufacturers.
- >No longer able to rely on consistant sales of big mainframes to huge
- >institutions, IBM is suddenly finding it has to (gasp) compete and, if
- >it learns its lesson at all, will have learned it too late.
- >
- >Ignore the market... and the market will ignore you...
- >
- >- Dark Hacker
- >--
- >Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
- >hacker@black-silicon.mclean.va.us
- >
- >"Life itself is... COMPUTATION!"
-