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- wisedude, on 11/06/2007, -14/+66Your michael dell "prediction" isnt' even a prediction... It's just advice. There's a HUGE difference, no one actually said that's what'd happen
- theuniversal, on 11/06/2007, -5/+42The mouse that comes with a mac has had left and right click for years. Is it too confusing for you without the division in the plastic?
- cranium, on 11/03/2007, -3/+24I can't believe Dvorak didn't make the list with all of the stupid ***** he's been saying.
- ImTheChaz, on 11/03/2007, -5/+26Digg me down but I think the most ridiculous Apple prediction I have ever read was on a Digg story the other day. "look for Leopard to outsell Vista by a staggering margin." , seriously... http://digg.com/apple/Leopard_will_open_the_Mac_OS ...
- killerofkiller, on 11/03/2007, -0/+20Remember Kevin Rose's iPhone 'info'...
"it has a pullout querty, 2 batteries....etc - brstilson, on 11/03/2007, -1/+20Personally, I'd give the doomsayers in 1996 and 1997 a pass on this. It really didn't look good for Apple back then, so a lot of people were expecting them to fall. Apple couldn't figure out which market they wanted to sell to, which led to lackluster hardware in both the business and consumer ends. Jobs had the foresight to realize that trying to beat Microsoft and Unix/Linux in the business world was like an ant trying to push a boulder. He gave Apple focus on the one market they could do well in, the consumer market.
If Jobs wouldn't have come back to Apple, they very likely would have shut their doors. - stalefries, on 11/06/2007, -3/+21Guys, you just committed the classic Internet blunder: feeding a troll.
- trghpy, on 11/06/2007, -13/+29heh, gamers... mac... heh
- AriaStar, on 11/06/2007, -4/+19"Comedienne" is the proper form of the word "comedian" for a female.
- ncaauwe, on 11/03/2007, -2/+17Dugg for putting themselves on the list.
- ignorantcow, on 11/04/2007, -12/+26That comment by Dell was accurate at the time it was made
- AriaStar, on 11/03/2007, -4/+17I love my RAZR still, but that aside, you're correct. MOST people are just looking for a functional cell phone, leaving the iPhone to "gadget freaks" and the wealthy. Even then, not all "gadget freaks" can afford an iPhone. I think that those who think this statement false are those who believe the iPhone to be the end-all-be-all of phones.
- 808kick, on 11/06/2007, -2/+14I don't care about an election taking place in a country I don't live in (2008 US election) so you know what I do? I stay the ***** out of the topics.
- Samiyam, on 11/06/2007, -5/+17"Steve Wozniak will sleep with some loud-mouth, third-rate comedienne." Oh, wait...
- MikeSD34, on 11/06/2007, -3/+15http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ...
"...so you can both left-click and right-click." - olsonjj, on 11/03/2007, -0/+10Actually Michael Dell was predicting Apple's doom and his advice was to shut it down. So it was both a prediction and advice.
- Boondoggle, on 11/03/2007, -1/+10I love Leopard. It is awesome. It will not outsell Vista.
- threemagic, on 11/03/2007, -0/+9If you sell 1000 machines and make 1000 dollars and I sell 100 machines and make the same...then YOU are doing something wrong because that 1000 dollars has to go to supporting the larger sales.
You lose, good day sir. - Shorties, on 11/03/2007, -0/+9While no more of a prediction then the dell quote I kinda wish I had seen this on the list
“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”—CmdrTaco - thoughtbeans, on 11/03/2007, -0/+9Apple has done one of the best turn around for any company today.
- InitialDMP5, on 11/03/2007, -3/+12I'm an apple user and I don't have have an iPhone. I have a blackberry. I would get an iPhone but I can't use my corporate discount on the phone or save the 20% on my bill each month. Also, I am addicted to my blackberry and it feels good to hit those little keys when I type.
- readme, on 11/03/2007, -0/+8Worst iPod prediction:
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ ... - IndigoMoss, on 11/02/2007, -2/+9I'm not a fan of Apple, but they did turn themselves around quite a bit from the time of that article. It really is amazing how many things Apple implemented from the article. I'd just wish they'd open their platform up more than it is, so I don't have to spend a bucket load on a new PC when I already have a bad ass rig.
- adambadam, on 11/07/2007, -2/+9This is the scary list — Wired's June 1997 article "101 Ways To Save Apple" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html ... pretty amazing how many of these they are implementing today.
- threemagic, on 11/06/2007, -2/+8I've played WoW, Vanguard, most recently even Pirates of the Burning Sea beta... guess what... on my Mac Pro... with great framerates.. and everything turned on...
games..check - lsweet, on 11/03/2007, -1/+71 billion dollars in that market equates to nothing when you consider costs to do R&D + overhead.
- iigloo, on 11/03/2007, -0/+6Yeah, he killed the "Classic" Mac OS. Not the same thing as 'the Mac'. At all.
- chicagodj, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7Actually women who wait tables are waitresses. And women who host things are hostesses. And women who act are actresses.
- rspeed, on 11/03/2007, -1/+6Actually, no. Apple's market cap ( # of shares * share price ) is higher than Dell's.
- xike, on 11/02/2007, -2/+7You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- MAnt, on 11/03/2007, -0/+5Yes. Maybe that big customize button has something to do with it.
RTFM instead of complaining. - wewa, on 11/03/2007, -4/+9Beschizza is Enderle spelled backwards. Bizarro world, Kool-Aid style.
Dude, he forget to put the most important quote for the list:
"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Steve Jobs, Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultof ...
Technically, its not a 'dumb' quote, as Jobs is doing exactly that, to the dismay of Mac professionals the world over (Leopard delay for the iPhone, etc.). - MadKennyP, on 11/03/2007, -3/+8And it turned out to be HORRIBLE advice.
- tophu, on 11/06/2007, -2/+7You fell victim to one of the classic [Internet] blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never [feed the trolls!] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... *die*
- sudowrestler, on 11/03/2007, -0/+5It's interesting, but not surprising, that on Digg you see a lot of people wishing Apple to repeat some of the mistakes that got them into that situation. Open up the OS, try to compete in the low-end tower market, sell a broad range of computers rather than a small number of targeted models. Fortunately they're a more mature company now and have a clear sense of what they want to do and what they don't, and their focus is paying off.
- ethon, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Dick Head? Is that a proper noun? That'd be an awful name :(
- chuckbo, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4I figure they're going to do a special column, just for him, and honor him with a lifetime achievement award of messed up predictions.
- Aeror, on 11/03/2007, -3/+7Of course you can always find a person somewhere who will say the direct opposite of what is going to happen. Otherwise everyone would be able to look into the future. Quit calling people dumb just because they were wrong.
- antitab, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4You're making the mistake of thinking that the Vista stigma extends past the population of general technologically-inclined people. It doesn't. The average Joe and Jane don't really know or care about the OS – they just want a computer. Maybe if Vista wasn't sold with nearly all PCs by default, you'd have a case. Further, I have two cousins who know nothing about computers other than Myspace and Facebook, and they both upgraded to Vista on their own.
- Avian00, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4I like how this list of predictions is balanced, not just telling us the ones that make Apple look good. It was a very interesting read.
- postalblowfish7, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5ok once again. bootcamp.
i play FFXI, lotro, doom 3, orange box, etc. etc. all on my *gasp* macpro! - krakelohm, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Ya know I was with you on this till I got my MPB. I gave it some time and after a few hours it was second nature.
- Dustmuffins, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I wish =(
- JonnyTrombone, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5Don't like the Apple section, don't look at it. There are also Microsoft and Linux/Unix sections.
- ibeetle, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4They forgot:
Apple to buy Sony
Apple to buy Disney
Disney to buy Apple
Steve Jobs will be named head of Disney - awesty, on 11/05/2007, -5/+8Lol. "Apple good for gaming..."
- eternal, on 11/06/2007, -1/+4As for good for gaming, I don't play a lot of pc games, but those that I do play run great on my Mac.
- threemagic, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3No, it wasn't accurate at the time. For it to be accurate Apple would have to continue losing money and stock price. However, it went on a tear and made a lot of people rich....
so his statement probably caused quite a few people to sell.. they are all probably home with their Dells now wondering why they listened to his "accurate at the time" statement. - Popbot, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3If you look at the 101 Ways to Save Apple article that wired has, it's amazingly prescient. Seriously, some advice is stupid, but with other bits it looks like list of what Jobs did with the brand. Examples:
18. Stop being buttoned-down corporate and appeal to the fanatic feeling that still exists for the Mac. Power Computing's "I'll give up my Mac when they pry it from my stiff, dying fingers" campaign hits the right note. In the tech world, it's still a crusade. Support the Mac community, and the Mac community will support you.
19. Get rid of the cables. Go wireless.
23. Create a new logo. The corporate graphic of the multicolored apple was tired in the 1980s, now it's positively obsolete. Plaster the new logo on hats and T shirts to be worn conspicuously by Andre Agassi, Nicolas Cage, and Ashley Judd.
40. Cash in on millennium fever with an ad campaign that portrays Apple as a return to basics, a rediscovery of simplicity and purity, a rejection of complexity.
There are a couple more really good ones (Wired has some on its "15 Dumbest" page)
I like the last one:
101. Don't worry. You'll survive. It's Netscape we should really worry about. - lee4hmz, on 11/03/2007, -0/+3Sort of. It was a regular 4th-generation iPod with an HP logo added on the back, in an HP box.
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