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[cobalt-users] Re: The Apple Raq

At 11:40 AM 5/17/2002, you wrote:

At 1:15 PM -0400 5/17/02, Paul Jacobs is rumored to have typed:

> I am taking bet's on how long it will take for sun to start loosing money
> on the cobalt's to compete with apple.

   Sun has bunches of problems with Cobalts, but Apple ain't gonna be one of
'em. Look, since 1984 I've been a bigger Macintosh proponent than anyone else
you'll find, but I tell you now that Apple will NOT be able to penetrate more
than a few percent of this target market. Those familiar with unix aren't
going to buy an overpriced Mac for the cute GUI, those NOT familiar with unix
ain't gonna buy them simply because they are Macintosh machines, and many
former Macintosh users aren't going to buy them because they are based on
unix and actually have a command line. Ever since Apple moved backwards by
adding multiple layers (BIOS, DOS, GUI...sound like something another more
profitable company is trying to move _away_ from?) just because Steve brought
NextStep with him, they turned themselves into an also-ran in the industry.
Certainly Jobs is thrilled with a 3% penetration, but I can guarantee you no
hosting company in the world is going to remove RaQs and replace 'em with
overpriced G4's...they'll replace with inexpensive Intel/AMD machines.
Those familiar with hardware and want the speed offered by the apple server chip set will pay for the server. 
And the fact that it IS UNIX will only help it in the market IMHO.



   And no matter, this is OFF TOPIC for this particular list, so we should
really take it private. I know you like Macs, Paul, but this ain't the
Evangelista list.


I like mac now that they run freebsd, on OS X, OS9.x and below really sucks.




         Charlie (who's typing this on a Macintosh running OS 9, the last
                   secure OS Apple will ever release)