“As Apple Computer Inc.’s eye-catching iMac G5 PC began appearing in late September, Mac lovers were buzzing about how much the machine resembles a certain portable music player. A canny move by the folks at Apple, no doubt,” Peter Burrows reports for BusinessWeek. “But the question remains: Will the new iMac duplicate the iPod’s megahit success and revive Apple’s waning fortunes in the cutthroat PC business?”
“Why the sudden bullishness about the Mac? Part of it is the iPod halo effect. Many of the iPod’s 3.7 million buyers had never before owned an Apple product. Ever attuned to tech fashions, Jobs is doing his best to turn that familiarity into PC sales. The tag line for the new iMac is ‘From the makers of iPod,’ and insiders hint that a new ad campaign may focus on the products’ similar aesthetics. ‘It may be a stretch to get the iPod generation to embrace the Mac,’ says Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst John Roy. ‘But they might consider it,'” Burrows reports.
“That might bring more shoppers into one of Apple’s 86 stores, where business is already brisk. Piper Jaffray says fourth-quarter retail sales could hit $420 million — up 54% from last year,” Burrows reports. “Apple has other advantages that could come into play in the next few years. So far, its operating system has proved relatively immune to the hacker attacks plaguing Windows. What’s more, Microsoft Corp. has delayed the debut of the next Windows upgrade until 2006 — handing Apple a golden opportunity to extend its innovation lead. Apple will roll out a new version of its OS early next year that will include point-and-click videoconferencing and a search feature called Spotlight that makes it easier to find data on a PC… Apple’s future looks surprisingly bright.”
Full article here.
People, please remember, this is a Mac forum, not political.
Some of us aren’t terribly interested in the Bush/Kerry ramblings.
Thank-you.
so what if u are not a US Citizen!! this is macdailynews.com/ not .uk or . watever!! if we live in a country where an election is going, we shall be free to talk about it whenever, where ever, however. Incase u didn’t know it is the very principles this country is based!!!
I don’t think either Bush or Kerry are worthy of the office. Heck maybe Steve Jobs should run. Not that he’d likely be any better, but it’d make for some interesting speeches with those “one last thing” announcements.
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As for Apple, I don’t think Longhorn/Longshot is ever going to ship (it’s already following the path of Apple’s Copland), so this leaves Apple with a TREMENDOUS opportunity to tout their polished and secure OS. With all the runaway security issues, wouldn’t it be ironic of MS is ultimately taken down by the very beast they tried so hard to “embrace and extend”….
-sip
The US Presidential debates are important to every citizen on earth when the US is in it’s Global Cop, free trade phase and the rest of the world’s livelihood and safety depends upon them.
If and when Kerry gets in it will return to it’s isolationist, protectionist phase and we can all defend ourselves without their help and look for new markets for our goods and services.
I’d hate to see what the Republican Party would do to Steve Jobs. If he ran for election, most people would think Steve is a homosexual who loves France, doesn’t believe in free markets (look at the way he ran Apple, right?) and took so many drugs that he can’t think straight. And of course, their old stand by, he’s not Christian enough…
Leaders have followers. Look behind Bush, there’s nobody there, unless you count Poland. Einstein pointed out that anybody that keeps doing the same thing (staying the course) and expecting different results is mentally ill. And somebody please send Bush a newspaper! He seems genuinely clueless about Iraq. According to the DoD, only 5,000 Iraqis have been trained for security, not 100,000, and they’re being terrorized by suicide bombers. Also, they have been infiltrated.
I want a commander-in-chief who knows what’s going on, and adjusts his actions to relate to the reality, not to relate only to his fantasy like Bush is doing.
Zero viruses etc. seems absolutely not relatively immune. Am I missing something here?
I don’t get how everyone is saying Kerry won the debate last night. Over and over again he criticized the Bush administration of cutting money for this, that, and the other here at home, but Bush was always able to correct him with hard facts. It seemed to me that Bush won, not by a huge margin, but he won.
I don’t dislike Kerry per se, but I just don’t think he’d be very effective. He has a lot of good ideas, but I don’t get the impression that he has any idea how to implement them. It’s like someone who has never touched a hammer, nail, or board saying they’re going to build a house. Grandiose ideas are all well and good, but frankly I’m a little apprehensive about living in the house that Kerry built. I’m afraid that the best thing Kerry has going for him is that he doesn’t have a funny accent and he can correctly pronounce “nuclear”.
ndelc –
It was not Bush who had any “hard” facts – it was Kerry.
There is no denying that Bush has cut many programs, including education, healthcare, military, and then environment, while giving the richest 2% of Americans (some of his main supporters) a tax break.
Why are we spending 300 Billion dollars on building and training Iraq (after spending Billions to blow it up), and less than 5 Billion at home to build and train police, special forces, and homeland security? Which country is more important? That 300 Billion dollars is bleeding Americans dry.
If you think that Kerry doesn’t have any idea how to implement good ideas – check his 20 year track record in Congress.
You could try to check Bush’s track record for implementing good ideas, but you can’t – he locked all of his “public” office records, and the records of the executive boards he served on up in his father’s library, where you can’t see them.
Everything Bush has touched has gone to crap – I don’t want to live in a house built of crap.
If Bush ever grabbed a hammer in his life (and I doubt he ever has) he’d build a house with no kitchen, no bathroom, plenty of closets, and the whole thing would be made of Balsa wood. Fox News would show it to you from an angle that would somehow make it look kind of nice, and they would tell you that it’s the work of a genius.
One of Bush’s main arguments last night was that Kerry was sending “mixed messages” to our troops.
How about these mixed messages – in 2000, Bush said, “I’m a uniter, not a divider” – but Americans have never been more divided.
Or how about “Job well done – Mission accomplished”, and then last night, “We will win” – um, I thought we won??
Or, how about “I’m pro life” – and then ordering preemptive and unnecessary strikes which killed thousands of civilians, including children, and American troops. You can’t be pro-life and pro-war – those are contradictory “core values”, as he liked to say. Very mixed message.
Finally, how about “We must stop Sadam from building WMD”, but we won’t go after Pakistan, India, Iran or N. Korea, who all actually have WMD programs? Mixed message.
I am so going to bore you all about Michael Howard vs. Tony Bliar vs. Charles Kennedy next spring.
Don’t you dare criticise when it happens.
Great points KO… however I must take issue with this one …
“…..How about these mixed messages – in 2000, Bush said, “I’m a uniter, not a divider” – but Americans have never been more divided….”
Yes, he said he was a “uniter, not a divider”…. over and over ad nauseam… but I can remember a time when America was even more divided…
This was during the Viet Nam War….
Our die-hard allies hated us, back then…and half this country did also…
Strange, tho…. I see history repeating itself… especially when you read the posts from folks who live in other countries…
But, republicans dont seem to care what others think of us…
They seem to think Bush’s straight-arm imperialistic policies are just fine…
For those living in other countries… please be aware that should Bush do another number on the American people and get back in the White House…
he won’t have a mandate of the people
Bush Lost. Kerry Won. Kerry Will WIn. Apple Will Win.
Well, you got one right Jack.
I watched Tony Blair the other day and all I can say is he is soooooooooo much better than GW. Seriously.
Why on earth would Apple want to ship a BASIC interpreter ? if you really want to do that, then buy yourself RealBASIC.
What you SHOULD do though is make use of Xcode and IB. Write in C++, Java or even Perl for a commercial skill, or maybe Objective C if it’s just for your own benefit.
You could also consider Metrowerks CodeWarrior for a couple of reasons. The first is because it’s a better IDE than Xcode (but Xcode is free, so lets not knock it too much). The second is because you can use t to follow the programming courses at MetrowerksU.
But please don’t criticise Apple for not shipping a version of BASIC. The also don’t ship a version of Cobol or Pascal or Modula-2 or Jovial or Occam, which some people would probably have the skills for. In my case I’m an Ada programmer, but there’s not much call for it these days, so learning C++ is a better bet.
Note I’ve not mentioned C. I’m assuming you don’t know either C or C++. In that case you should avoid C. C++ is a better more modern object oriented language. You;ve also got access to some handy classes in the standard library for safely using lists etc, so there’s no need to write that stuff from scratch.
Nothing “surprising” about it.
People are discovering the Mac in their quest to find a better way of life than being shackled to XP.
Microsoft and it’s blind followers are “surprised” that the world is spinning, but they are unable to see that it is themselves that are doing the spinning… right down the toilet. Enjoy the ride!!
DUH FOR PRESIDENT:
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The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.”
– John F. Kerry
�”If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
– John F. Kerry
�”One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor,
and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.”
– John F. Kerry
�”I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
– John F. Kerry
�”The future will be better tomorrow.”
– John F. Kerry
We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
– John F. Kerry
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“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
– John F. Kerry
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“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
– John F. Kerry
�”Public speaking is very easy.”
– John F. Kerry
�”A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
– John F. Kerry
�”We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
– John F. Kerry
�”For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
– John F. Kerry
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
– John F. Kerry
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
John F. Kerry
�”It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
– John F. Kerry
Bush is no public debutante, but he makes a hell of better President then Kerry ever would. He understands the economy more than democrats do. Sure I think this country needs an overhaul with health care, power systems, education etc… But Kerry is an inconsiderate asshole and his wife is too.
That is all.
W ’04
Red Wings, do you HONESTLY want to compare your quotes from Kerry to quotes from Bush??? Dude, you’re suicidal.
here’s a freshy…
My concerns about the Senator is that, in the course of this campaign I’ve been listening very carefully to what he says, and he changes positions on the war on Iraq. It’s a — changes positions on something as ff — fundamental as what you believe in your core, in your heart of hearts is right for — in Iraq. I — you cannot lead if you send mexed miss — mixed messages.
— GW sending mexed missages of his own in the First Presidential Debate, Coral Gables, Florida, Sep. 30, 2004
Now is that strong leadership?
Red wings has some good quotations. However we have years of them out of Bush. My personal favorite is his speech at a pro-life venue at which Bush said “every feces is sacred,” and he continued to say “feces” instead of “fetus” more than a dozen times.
As for Kerry being an “asshole,” I would doubt the absence of the same opinion about Bush, or for that matter about Red Wings himself.
“I’ve been to war [sic]. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war.” — Bush, flat out lying in 2002.
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”-Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
“It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.”�Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can’t answer your question.”� Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
“I’m a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.” — Bush, on David Letterman, March 2, 2000. (the audience booed)
and the list goes on and on and on and on and, well, you get the idea…
Stupid Red Wings. Anyone who has a brain knows all of those statements allegedly made by John Kerry are very well known Bushisms.
Bush is an intelligent man, a dangerous opponent, and a truly horrible public speaker. And yes, it is perfectly possible for those attributes to be combined in one person. Nobody knows it better than us Canadians.
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Horribly public speaker?? That’s about the only he has going for him, besides his father’s network of rich saudis.
Are you on drugs?
The reason he won in 2000 was NOT because he was intelligent it was because he was endearing.. as opposed to Iron Man Al Gore…
The fact that he can get cornered in arguments lends to his ‘I went to an Ivy League School.. I can’t believe it’ pea-sized brain..
I am amazed that the Bush camp has the numbers of followers to make this a close race.
I can’t understand how anyone can think that he has done anything but run the country into the ground at home and around the world.
His arguments about staying to the course are annoying. His course has cost us respect around the world. Cost our economy dearly, and we are supposed to commend him for not blinking as he drove us off the cliff. (Yeah I want off that ride)
I guess the thing that scares me more than Bush is the people seriously think that this guy is good for us!
Kerry isn’t the candidate I would of liked to of seen, but he is a better choice than Shrub. Hell, a sock puppet could of done a better job. It wouldn’t of cost as much, wouldn’t of invaded a country that had nothing to do with the war on terror (how do you fight a tactic anyway?)