Posts by karmadave

Neither of these guys were Boy Scouts. They were shrewd, brilliant businessmen with different (and in most cases complimentary) visions of computing. They are really the yin and the yang. One could not have been sucessful without the...

It's called 'Globalization' folks. Labor is sent to where it's cheapest and capital where it can get the highest returns. Unfortunately, the semi-skilled or unskilled US worker is going to get the short end of the stick. Even if they...

Jobs wasn't technically fired, but he was effectively fired when the Apple board relived him of any operating responsibility. I worked at Apple, from 1987-1992, and Scully was actually quite popular. In fact, compared to Michael...

Wow! HP really took it on the chin last quarter. No surprise here. Apple has been doing really well with their lineup and Dell is gaining on HP. Of course Apple is still experiencing growth, but it will be interesting to see what happens...

From what I've see so far, an 'Android' based tablet is a non-starter unless you are talking Amazon's Kindle Fire which is sold at a loss so that Amazon can make $$$ on content. Without end-to-end content distribution a consumer tablet...

Quote: Originally Posted by macslut I was hoping they would move into the Borders location as well, but I think that would have been really difficult to renovate into their brand while keeping the historical architecture. What...

It's been rumored for years that Apple was going to move their Palo Alto Store to the site of the old Z Gallery on University Ave. Guess they finally got the go ahead to begin the project. Personally, I wish they would have moved across...

IMHO, this whole WebOS episode is nothing but an expensive distraction for HP. In 2 years the market will still be dominated by iOS and maybe Android or M$. Today, HP makes the majority of it's profits selling 'big iron' and services to...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I hope someone ultimately makes a museum of Apple products and the prototypes that led up to those products. Digibarn, in Santa Cruz, has a pretty interesting collection of 'vintage' Apple...

Dell is doing just fine. There simply is no market for an Android tablet in the Enterprise which is where Dell now gets most of it's revenue. Amazon is loosing money on each Kindle Fire it sells and early reports have been less than...