At the Apple Expo in Paris on Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said: “Microsoft is copying us with its operating system… Dell’s trying to copy us with its hardware. That’s fine but we’d like to not give them a map and show them where we’re going to go. At least they can [try to] follow our taillights.”
Too many cooks in the kitchen
“According to the Apple boss, splitting technology into hardware, operating system and applications, and having three separate companies do each of the parts is not a recipe for a good piece of kit,” Jo Best reports for Silicon.com. “‘It doesn’t work for consumer electronics, it doesn’t work for videogames – that’s why Microsoft had to do the hardware,’ he said.”
Too many viruses in the Windows PC
Best reports, “He did, however, tip his cap to the PC for being responsible for the iPod to Mac ‘halo effect’, saying that iPod owners ‘maybe on Friday they get their 30th virus of the week on their PC and they decide to go check out a Mac.'”
Not too many great Apple apps will be coming to Windows
“Despite bringing Windows users into the fold with an iTunes for the PC, Jobs rebuffed the idea of making all Mac apps compatible with the Redmond giant’s OS,” Best reports. “‘We put iTunes on Windows and kind of helped them out there. Microsoft has to earn a living too – we’ll leave some software for them to write,’ he said.”
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God how I love him
Hey Steve, instead of sitting on your duff in Paris, spouting out witticisms to the foreign press like some kind of deranged philosopher king, why not get back to Cupertino and start kicking some hardware engineer @$$? I’d say it’s about time for another PowerBook update!!
‘We put iTunes on Windows and kind of helped them out there. Microsoft has to earn a living too – we’ll leave some software for them to write,’
developers, developers, developers, developers!
Jobs is so right though.
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“Hey Steve, instead of sitting on your duff in Paris, spouting out witticisms to the foreign press like some kind of deranged philosopher king, why not get back to Cupertino and start kicking some hardware engineer @$$? I’d say it’s about time for another PowerBook update!!”
Im sure he never thought of that Maybe when he sees your post, he’ll get right on that.
hammer: Im sure he never thought of that Maybe when he sees your post, he’ll get right on that.
he will if he wants MY 3000 bucks I have earmarked for a notebook next quarter…
re: Porting Apple software to Windows
iTunes to Windows was not about “helping out” the Wintel folks… it was about expanding the iPod user base and driving more sales. That was a great marketing move, and is proven each and every day as thousands of people sans Mac click “buy song”.
iTunes as an app assists with selling iPods (and $.99 tracks). You needn’t worry about Apple porting apps like Final Cut to Windows. Final Cut and other fine Apple software sells Macs.
Umm…right-o.
I think you did yourself a tiny favor in EXPANDING THE MARKET TO EVERYONE ELSE.
hehe
What kinda silliness are we dealing with here?
Too funny..
Sophist, Steve doesn’t do the hardware, John Ive does.
PS…
I suppose there would have been software that allowed PC people to use iPods without iTunes (on windows)…um is there one? Am I forgetting something?
If so,Steve’s comment is less silly to me.
Stetchpants – ever hear of a concept called ‘wit’?
John Gee:
http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html
iPod software for Linux
John Gee:
And for Windows and Linux – http://www.ephpod.com/
Topic:
John and Bob Denver – similar or not? Discuss.
What about Safari for Windows? As a marketing tool and to drive more (seemingly obtuse) web developers to acknowledge browsers other than IE? (pronounced AAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!) And we still need more cowbell but that’s a topic for another day.
/off topic
What is with the stupid MDN pop-ups?
/on topic
Hmm. I can do things my way and on my clock for a whopping $8,000,000,000, or I can do things just to please Sophist for $3,000. Let me think on that one. I’ll get back to you. Cuz, you know, I’m new to this computer business, see.
g,
Safari’s and Firefox’s Pop-Up Blockers broken?
Thank you.
Cuz, you know, I’m new to this computer business, see.
Why the hell is “Steve Jobs” channelling Edward G. Robinson’s character in Little Caesar all of a sudden?!
If Sophist was the only person impatient with the Apple’s lack of recent PB upgrades, the snarky comment “Steve Jobs” exhibited would hold water. 8 billion can only let you coast so far these days, especially when an increase in market share by hundredths of a point is enough to make some people in the Apple community wet themselves with joy. Apple needs more customers and less fanboys in order to be any more than a niche player. Even someone as new to the computer business as this “Steve Jobs” fellow should be able to see that, yeah, see??
The sad thing for Sophist and others in his/her position is that Apple has a comfort blanket called iPod that it can use to weather the disatisfaction of customers who wish that the Intel migration could happen a mite quicker.
Apple are likely to sell around 7.5 million iPods for the quarter about to end, probably at an average of around $165, yielding around $1.237 billion in sales.
For the coming holiday quarter, Apple will probably move around 12.5 million iPods including the first complete quarter of iPod nano sales. Bizarrely, for this market, the nano will actually have the effect of increasing average value/unit – probably back to the $200 mark – which means that Apple will pick up $2.5 billion in iPod sales and realise around $450 million in gross profit.
This will also be the first holiday quarter for Mac mini, and it will probably also contain a new professional dual-core Power Mac and minor bumps for the Powerbook line: my personal bet would be that they could be in line to ship around 1.3 million CPUs for the holiday quarter at around $1250/unit which should bring in another $1.625 billion.
So that’s $4.1 billion in sales, with probably another $750 million due in from other streams which comes to $4.8 billion: assume Apple can run at around 7.5% net profitability for the quarter and they’ll declare anywhere between $350 million and $400 million in profits for the quarter.
Ampar: Safari for Windows? YES!!!!
I emailed Apple and asked for it. Maybe if more people did they would think about it. I don’t use Safari very often now, I use Firefox because I go from a Mac to a PC quite often and its easier to use just one browser.
Who would use it?
It’s not as if there were not already several alternative browsers for Windows. Firefox is quite a success, but Opera has been around for years and has only 2 or 3%.
The main attraction of Safari is that it is a native OS X app, which on Windows would be a liability.
That’s a fact (MW).