[Am-info] Jobs Touts OS, Unveils New IPod

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.07.20 03:36 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>This echoes my suspicions. If Microsoft were a genuine business partner to 
>Apple (which of course they are not to Apple or anyone else), they would 
>offering some sort of public recognition and support for the difficulty 
>and importance of what Apple is attempting to accomplish in the OSX 
>transition. At least they would not be criticizing so them like an 
>impatient, disapproving parent. Microsoft is never going to admit that the 
>real source of their disapproval is, most likely, Apple's current ad 
>campaign.

     Microsoft is a "partner" in the same way a female grasshopper is the 
partner to a mate she's going to devour once he's properly fertilized her.
     That Apple ad campaign is a definite sign of things to come. The guy 
saying "Windows is just clunky" is Apple firing a shot across Microsoft's 
bow. We won't play nice anymore when we don't have to. And Microsoft 
dropping all Macintosh development is no longer an "if" but a "when," IMO 
anyway. The entire MBU will be laid off or transferred to Microsoft's 
Syberian subsidiary. (Expect some of those people to show up inside Apple 
sooner or later.) AppleWorks 7 will be a key - that software suite will 
be advanced enough to make up for the demise of office:mac whenever that 
happens. The fireworks start in about 5 weeks when the August 1997 
contract runs out.
     By the way, for any Mac users: What do you think about the 
possibility of Sherlock 4 being a full-blown Web browser? The thought 
occured to me the other day... Apple had one before the Microsoft 
agreement and might need one again if IE disappears on the Mac. We shall 
see.


======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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