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- mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -14/+22I rarely leave comments, but this is ridiculous. Digg is great, but one of the things I hate the most is seeing the damn comments. Comments like:
a) This is so old
b) Lame..
c) This is not news
.. are incredibly ***** annoying. You know why? Because the internet is not about YOU. If it's old to you, who cares. What might be lame to you might be pretty interesting to another. Finally, what's news? What's current? Shouldn't we sometimes look at the past as a benchmark for the present/future? So yeah, think before you post that ***** one-liner. - blhack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4no guys, i'm sorry but apple will NOT take over microsoft. Among geeks apple is gaining populatity......keep in mind however that most major retailers still fail to stock much as far as apple PCs go.
Apple will always have its niche, however when an average consumer is told that the majority of their programs will not run on this machine they will not want to buy it.
Apple's stock is rising right now and they are making money because of iTunes and the iPod. The market will soon become saturated as far as that goes. I do see apple loosing steam soon.
Flame me if you would like. I do need some entertainment this evening. - MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Steve Jobs was an arrogant ass then and he's an arrogant ass now. I'm not saying he hasn't earned it. But that's a pretty damn arrogant ad.
- bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apple used "logarithmic" in an ad...and they wonder why their customers back then didn't understand it's benefits...
Then iPod. 4 letters.
Steve finally gets it. - BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4And history is about to repeat itself, but this time Apple will dominate the landscape. These are exciting times we all live in and I'm just glad that I'm here to observe it. Add the linux group to the mix and now we have a race. Who will prevail? Can there be room for more than one at the top of the heap? Stay tuned!
- linuxmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's really ironic/funny about this is that the G4 and G5 lines were made with IBM technology... made in East Fishkill, New York and Burlington, Vermont. Forget about the Intel switch... personally I think it's a likely bad move, but I suppose we'll see.
- moron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think that we are on the cusp of an evolutionary change in the way computing is done. Over the last ten years Microsoft has dominated the market place so extensively, and grown to such enormity that they are having a difficult time to produce anything of quality. Early reviews of Vista are poor, the computer requirements are staggering - you need a top of the line PC just to get it running, and this in an era when processor performance is waining.
Apple's OS-X is not only elegant to use but it is also sophisticated and even better based on Unix! Reports coming out of Redmond show that Microsoft is afraid, they know that their competitive product is not as good as it should be. In the media right now Apple is the golden child who can do no wrong. Microsoft is the evil empire who has dominated too long.
Ideally, I would love to see Apple gain 25 to 50% of the OS market, put some real pressure on Microsoft to change to optimize and to make a better product. In the end the consumer will win! If it wasn't for AMD, Intel would still have us back at the 1GHz machines. If it wasn't for Apple in the 80's IBM would still have us on Green CRT's. Competition is a good thing and I seriously hope there will be a fight for years to come!
As for myself personally, I have been a PC person for 20 years, I will continue to own a PC for gaming. But my day to day life is moving to Apple. Life has never been better, but what is on the horizon looks promising. - okto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like green CRTs.
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.pc-history.org/
"The Apple II was the first true"personal computer" it was factory built, in-expensive and easy to learn and use. Provided with the most extensive set of software and low cost floppy disks, the Apple II was also the first personal computer capable of color graphics and easy modem operation.. Development of the Visicalc spreadsheet program created a business tool that made adoption of Apple II a regular part of business." - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll bet that Apple didn't make a similar ad to "congratulate" Microsoft on releasing Windows 3.0... They learned their lesson by then!
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I subitted this story to Digg because I thought it would fun to look back on the actions of companies and their respective concequences. It could give us some foresight in regards to the future directions the company is headed for as well as learning from their past...
- mcletter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes it is an interesting time that we are living in. OS wise, Unix is going to prevail over all. Which version of a unix system I don't know, but people are waking up to the beauty of open source.
- _HAM_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The typography is just abysmal.
Just look at the line spacing and those awkward first-line indents.
Bleagh!"
It was jsut the style back then. Don't you guys have a 70s, 80s Playboy collection. All the Ads look like that. - chicagobiker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Browsing through that site and looking at some of the other ads, I ran across this one.
What's that salesman doing to that boy! http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/newads4/howto.jpg - ForbesBingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The typography is just abysmal.
Just look at the line spacing and those awkward first-line indents.
Bleagh! - _HAM_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Apple defeating Microsoft? Bah, Apple doesn't need to. Microsoft is doing a good job defeating itself.
Apple is making big moves, and has been ever since Steve came back. They are doing alot of the things they said they would never dom and every idiot knew that they should. Good things are in stor from Apple, simply becuase they are coming down from thier pedastal and focusin on thier vision. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...And then just a couple of years later, IBM all but killed off its prospects as a PC manufacturer by stubbornly pushing the proprietary MCA bus, and failing to come to the market first with a 386-powered PC. Whoops, IBM.
- shadowgate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Goodbye IBM, Seriously
- superhighgain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This ad was a huge mistake and reeks of arrogant stupidity. It only serves to lend credibility to IBM as a serious competitor in the marketplace. Marketing 101 faux pas - You don't talk about your competitor unless you are discussing/comparing features favorable to your product.
- hao2lian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Grammatically, the ad appears to have been written by a 4th grader."
Orationally, your argument appears to be you stating your opinion without giving a rat's ass about supporting it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apple in this ad is suprisingly like Google now (who refuse to criticize their competitors).
- jglynn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Grammatically, the ad appears to have been written by a 4th grader.
- deathBOB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting bit of history.
- mdyoke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's some of the most pompous, self-important, drivel I have ever read, and I've been working in corporate America for a good 20 years now.
- orangetiki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's too bad their recent ads don't have as much satire.
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I bet they wished that ad was never done once Windows hit its stride and crushed apples dominance in the personal computing market with the help of IBM...whoops
- kaje, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1889 diggs and counting...
and masterzora still looks like a tard. - skidooer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"no guys, i'm sorry but apple will NOT take over microsoft. Among geeks apple is gaining populatity......"
The average Joe likes to keep up with what the geeks are doing. If all of the geeks switched to OS X, everyone else would follow suit.
"Apple's stock is rising right now and they are making money because of iTunes"
Apple doesn't make money from iTunes. It's only there to drive iPod sales. The iPod is definitely Apple's cash cow, but do remember that their computer user base is up by a million users in just the last year. - CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think the claim Apple makes in this, that they invented the PC, is a pretty good way to sum up the company's personality. Yeah, innovation...
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm impressed with the foresight shown in this ad. Remember this is back when people were saying stuff like: "No one will ever need more than 640k of ram" (Bill Gates)
- cmeador, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0IBM should have run a similar ad back when Xserve came out.
- beanie1066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would probably switch to Apple, but for two things. I live in a small town, so my biggest concern would be finding software without having to drive 50 miles for it. And also the fact that Apple computers have a bit too much of a premium on them, compared to Win-tel machines.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1>I bet they wished that ad was never done once Windows hit its stride and crushed
>apples dominance in the personal computing market with the help of IBM...whoops
this is the part you don't get. apple from day one was about changing the world.
about bring the good stuff to people to make things better. microsoft, IBM...
no vision. no clue. its good to see the good guys win. and win because they didn't
loose the vision or change just to sell more computers. - trongod05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"keep in mind however that most major retailers still fail to stock much as far as apple PCs go."
I think we will see more retailers carrying Apple products when the Intel Macs come out. CompUSA has their own spot for Apple and I'm sure it will get bigger. Of course there's the Apple Store, and I am willing to be a new Intel Mac on the fact that Best Buy will start carrying Macs again. - DougM96, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...and now Apple relies on iPod sales to survive and IBM sold its PC division to the Chinese (Lenovo).
- jawsomemax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0apple is NOT going to take over microsoft, and microsoft will not trump apple... if one was SO much better than the other, the lesser just simply would not have survived the past 15-20 years...
for me.. i use mac, windows, and linux.. im an equal opportunity type of person - Barlo_Mung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apple is making big moves. Since Steve came back they've become quite a nice toy company. I like the iPods. They look nice.
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ForbesBingley...
You're right on the money in regards to Apple's poor typographical layout. For a company priding themselves in good taste and Steve being enlightened by Caligraphy during his college days, this ad goes against the grain everything Apple stood for. - MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4@bacon_skoda
Hahahaha. The sad thing is it's true. The average American is very stupid. They can't be bothered with things like learning. - Harlequn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hey- i can remember people predicting 'MICROSOFT EXCEL IS *NOT* GOING TO TAKE OVER LOTUS 1-2-3. LOTUS 123 IS THE STANDARD AT THIS COMPANY. WHY, NUMBER CRUNCHERS WILL NEVER TAKE THEIR HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD TO USE THE MOUSE"
LOL - vannyx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1is like 70 percent of digg apple users because i see that anything with apple in it gets alot of digs. Maybe i should post a story about the Icrapper and see how much diggs it gets.
- masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@kaje:
1128 diggs and counting. Your point? Especially, consider this:
there are currently 64858 registered users on Digg. Of those, 1128 people have dugg this. That isn't even 2% of the people on Digg, so there is no way you can say that the popular opinion is for this.
Besides, if you know anything about arguing, you've heard of the Argumentum Ad Populum fallacy. Basically, it says that you can't come up with a valid conclusion by saying "the people say so". - neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Steve is arrogant.. but he backs it up more than enough... so i have nothing against him.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's all about Steven Jobs! when he's leading a company, that company tend to come out on top. Just look at his other creation, Pixar Studios, now it is the biggest animation company in the world. Apple lost almost the entire market and almost went bankrupt because the morons on apple's board of directors fired Steven Jobs. What the hell were they thinking? Then they finally admit that they were wrong and asked Jobs to come back, now look at Apple today. Stock price rocketing, user base expanding and is being taken seriously again.
- masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@manfesto:
Well, I guess that came out wrong. By Slashdot replacement, I didn't mean that I wanted it to be just like Slashdot. Rather, I meant that Digg usually carries the stories that I find most interesting on Slashdot, there's just too much irrelevant stuff to wade through to get there. (That is to say, irrelevant to Digg, not irrelevant to what I'm looking for).
@voisine:
Firstly, it's not democratic. To be democratic it would need a negative Digg, which it doesn't have.
And who says that the tech news is a suggestion? The best and most official source on that is the site itself which says, and I quote, "Digg is a technology news website". Sounds like more than a suggestion to me.
It seems pretty obvious to me that Digg is meant to be a technology news website. Slashdot-esque rather than del.icio.us-esque - Deradorn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1the only reason to buy a mac intel is to install windows on it
- CaptHarlock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I find it a piece of DOUBLE irony that
1.) Apple talks smack about IBM
2.) IBM allows open standards for building of components
3.) Apple jumps from the high maintenance girl everyone wants to date to the girl that has to turn tricks to put processed cheese on the table
4.) Microsoft steps in out of pity and says to Apple to clean herself up
5.) Apple then goes on to take manners and etiqutte classes
6.) Apple becomes the high class escort that everyone obsesses over once again
7.) Apple talk (san fans) smack about Microsoft
8.) Everyone figures out that the high class escort is the same girl that did it behind the dumpster for moldly beef jerky - h8jane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Jobs is an ass and he got what he justly deserved: a kick in the pants and less than 2% of the market. Think about it, Jobs isn't the innovator, his engineers and programmers are, ie. he is all show and no go.
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0apple *scoff*
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If you liked this ad, hope you like another one I submitted showing Bill Gates in a Macintosh Polo Shirt...
http://digg.com/apple/The_1984_Apple_Macintosh_Ad_that_Bill_Gates_doesn_t_want_you_to_see -
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