Gates comment about apple... - Page 2

kandyman676 · 05-12-2005, 03:36 PM

*cough* please get back onto topic about the article. Thanks *cough*

If you want to war about Mac vs. PC vs. the world, please go elsewhere.

Back on topic...

Gates is just overconfident. MS is attacking on multiple fronts...when a company does that, it tends to loose site of what each arm is doing from the other.

dmeyer · 05-12-2005, 03:54 PM

I think they should give Microsoft Bob another try...wasn't that suppose to change the world?

rushnrockt · 05-12-2005, 03:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by skydiver

abit confused here didnt MS bail mac out years ago ?. i.e bill owns a big chunk of mac anyhow so does he realy care

Hmm, did you ever consider the fact that it was MS bailing ITSELF out? The amount of money invested was not so great as to help out Apple financially (at least the official amount, $150 million). The deal also involved extending the life of MS Office for Mac as well as a collaboration on more software projects. Considering that Justice Department was on Microsoft's *** at the time, it was rather obvious that MS wanted to send a message of being a "fair" competitor, not the kind that destroys whoever is in the way (netscape comes to mind).

rushnrockt · 05-12-2005, 03:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kandyman676

*cough* please get back onto topic about the article. Thanks *cough*

If you want to war about Mac vs. PC vs. the world, please go elsewhere.

Back on topic...

Gates is just overconfident. MS is attacking on multiple fronts...when a company does that, it tends to loose site of what each arm is doing from the other.

Still, one comment that got my attention was that iPod will lose out to cell phones, which echoes Nokia's statement just recently. Either way, I think it would be silly to assume that Apple will just sit on iPods and not try to move into anything else. I've posted a thread about that somewhere around here, but it seems that Apple wants to achieve what MS could not in the past 8 years, and that's a complete home/car computer/entertainment system. Will see how that works out.

MDLarson · 05-14-2005, 01:10 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by RoyN

MDLarson, not meaning to threadjack but already threadjacking... I just spent the last 2 minutes at your website reading about your fight with ol33l... you definitely are a noob that didnt get with the pace really... You should really read more about the attitudes of people, their humor, the way they take things etc on this forum before picking a fight like that.... just honest advice...

and about going out of your way becuase you are put on someone's ignore list and making a freaking website about it???

how old are you??? younger than ol33l???

thanks for the laugh though! hahaha

</threadjacking> sorry I couldnt resist after loosing my time reading that

I'm only a noob to this site and the people here. Are you saying I should have looked up this guy's previous posts and tried to extrapolate his intended meaning from that? C'mon, the guy's original post was completely unhelpful, and (I felt) needed to be reprimanded / corrected. Many Mac users like me are used to people throwing ignorant arguments at you, but admitedly I am personally pretty sensitive about it.

Anyway, the page only took about an hour to put up, and yes, it is out of spite that I did it. But I think this jerk needed to be exposed / humbled a little, and in the end I showed more class than he did, so the link's still in my signature. Plus, if you look at my public website stats, then select Popular Pages from the left, you'll see that that page is quite popular.

If people find it interesting / humourous, great.

Bugbyte · 05-14-2005, 03:05 PM

I found it interesting and entertaining but it did seem like the better option was to ignore the post. I was the one that started that thread and when I saw his post I just ignored it. I didn't really take any offense.

I also like that there aren't too many Mac vs. PC wars on this forum. People definately have their opinions and biases and you see them slip out from time to time but mostly we're all of the mind that a computer in your car is a good thing, whether Linux, PC, or Mac.

As a daily switcher (PC at work all day, Mac at home every night), frankly I think I've got a pretty good view of the benefits and disbenefits of both platforms. But that's just my opinion for my situation. It doesn't really apply to others and likewise, their opinions don't apply to me.

Now, can we get back to crunching some bytes as we drive?