I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success, I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.
You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of logical operations. The present theory of physics is not that way, apparently. It allows space to go down into infinitesimal distances, wavelengths to get infinitely great, terms to be summed in infinite order, and so forth; and therefore, if this proposition [that physics is computer-simulatable] is right, physical law is wrong.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could, I'm searching for the right word, could, could die.
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.
We also know first hand that flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.