Re: [NTLK] deja vu, ipod gets its own division

From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 13:14:54 PDT


In a previous message, Edmund Blackadder typed vigorously:

>> No joke! Cringely is now speculating on the demise of the MacOS and the
>> rise of an Apple consumer electronics division. See:
>> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040520.html
>>
>It must be the "analyst" 's duty...there has not been a single day the
>past 20 years that someone has not predicted the fall of the mac in
>various ways (the intel-story is going on only the last 4 years...)

I would expect a bonehead like John Dvorak to spout this kind of
speculative nonsense, but any industry wonk with half a brain of his own
(like Cringley) should know better. Feh.

>Suprisingly, the mac is still here...

Not surprisingly, so are the *anal*ysts.

g.

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