“There are a few straws blowing in an increasingly strong wind for Apple Computer. Straw 1: When the White House’s former top cyber-security and anti-terrorism expert, Richard Clarke, visited Australia and new Zealand recently, he carried an Apple Macintosh, not a Windows machine,” David Frith reports for Australian IT. “Clarke, who served under four presidents but is no friend of the Bush administration, says he chooses a Mac because it protects his data from more than 99 per cent of all known viruses, worms, network attacks and spyware
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lets hear it for the Mac !!
WOW!! More good news…just in time for the holidays.
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I don’t think anyone could buy this much positive publicity.
ADVERTISING NEEDED!!!!
This is good press, to be sure, but the Windows monopoly is in no immediate danger…yet.
Buffy ??
The best advertising comes from word of mouth…
Why not send this article to all your PeeCee – lovin friends ?
I agree with Buffy. There needs to be more visibility for Macs. I’ve seen this explosion of success coming for months now (call it faith), but there still isn’t any TV advertising for Macs, and that’s sad.
The iPod commercials are getting noticed, even here in Canada, but let’s see ads about OS X, Airport and Airport Express, the new iMacs, PowerMacs, and the iSight.
Ted…
I agree…. while His Steveness is a genius at predicting what is and will be cool… and produces products to reflect his genius…
He really needs to find an agressive Ad Agency…
But, till that happens…
the best advertising comes from word of mouth….
“uhhh … is there an echo in here ? “
mac dood,
Absolutely, there should *always* be word-of-mouth advertising. My own efforts have converted one family (and their business)… that’s two more Macs and two more iPod in use by former Windows users, and I’ve got more people lined up in my conversion factory.
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I’m also building a new website “Is a Mac for me?”… [url=http://www.isamacforme.info]http://www.isamacforme.info[/url] . Watch for it. (btw, contact me if you want to contribute testimonials, etc.)
Ted…
So hurry up and put an “Under Construction” or something there on an “index.html” page… so I can bookmark it !!
Apple should license it OS to one other company – Sony (along with partnering with Sony on music).
THAT would be the scoop which changes Apple’s fortunes forever.
A really powerful, established, and broad alternative base to Wintel.
Apple tried licensing the OS before, all it did was cut into their own hardware sales and didn’t improve market share. The only way Apple could successfully license is to license both the hardware and software, like the iPod.
Yes Macman, but Apple was on the way down then and all the undistinctive licencees did was to knock out cheap(er) beige boxes. Highly selective partnering would benifit Apple now – and ensure quality. Sony would appeal to a different market from those who would usually consider a Mac. The marketing would be centred around the power and strengths of OSX.
Perhaps Apple could benifit from some tie-in with Playstation too.
Gee, looks like the “real IT world” is taking big notice. . .
if apple should license their OS to any other company – it should be IBM
let IBM “recommend OS X” and let the snowball roll!!!
Apple is playing the game about the way it needs to – they couldn’t survive any more demand than they already have right now ’cause IBM can’t build chips fast enough.
The one thing that has always been Apples achilies heel is an inability to keep up with demand.
Right Twenty Benson!
I’ve always hoped for a Apple/Sony alliance.
I believe now that there’s a good chance of it happening- when Sony’s player finally goes under.
Both firms have got a lot to gain from an alliance in the internet music market.
“Windows desktop monopoly threatened by secure, safe Apple Mac OS X”
ROTFL….Thats LOL So Damn Funny LOL LOL….!!!!!!!
Thanks for the joke of the day MDN….
“Lets here it for the Mac”…LOL….
Now that is Comedy….
SnagglePuss,
You sound skeptical. That is evidence enough that you don’t know the first thing about what you’re talking about.
How’s your PC holding up today? Slow from all the extra software running just to keep it running?
Teddy : “How’s your PC holding up today?”
My Mac is holding up fine today…Im not skeptical, Just realistic…
“real IT world” – thanks for the giggle moiety5!!! Sigh, I miss putznik…
Yes, I wonder what planet MDN are on sometimes. If they don’t get the headlines to match their fantasies… they make ’em up!
I’d take a guess that even if every home user in the world used Macs, the Windows monopoly would still be nowhere near threatened.
Okay Snaggly, my bad. Realism is a good trait. But come on…. where’s the “Macs rule” attitude we all should be displaying? 😀
I’ve seen a major comeback for Apple, and it’s happening. I just hope they can keep up with their own momentum.
RE:He really needs to find an agressive Ad Agency…
So True: I think Apples’s agency is still Chiat-Day.
In the early 80’s, I worked for Nissan Motor, the parent company of Infiniti, which intro’d the Q45, (was and still is a dynamite car) with the infamous “rocks and trees” tv ad which never showed the car! And we know where competitor Lexus sales went, and we know now that after 20 years, Infiniti is finally going somewhere by:
SHOWING THE DAMN PRODUCT!
I can ony theorize that by being “cool” (read vague) that they thought the ad would stimulate customers to search further, or something else equally overthought, if I can coin a word. If you set out to create a vague image, you get a vague image. Surprise!
Chiat-Day gets awards from their “peers”
(can you say inbred?) I think they are more interested by being “different” than being better.
Want to know the best way to be “different?”
Be Better!!!! It happens automatically!
You can be “different” by setting your hair on fire, but there are side effects. People get distracted from your message, it’s just that simple.
IBM can build as many chip production lines as are necessary if they see something happening. There is something happening, but it could be so much better.
I don’t doubt that there will be some people who will answer back that there must be some deep mysterious strategy way back in the back room of Apple advertising that will mysteriously spring forth and show us ignorant peons out here in the hinterlands that Apple was right all this time to advertise. (or not)
Someone prove me wrong, I would love for that to happen.l
Twity Benson,
Windows doesn’t have to be threatened by OSX, it is threatened by its own utter mediocrity and rotten core. lol.