Newsweek futurist predicts Canon takeover of Apple in 2003
Get a load of this:
Apple Gets Married:
There are only so many redesigns of the iMac left for Cupertino, and being the Bang and Olufsen of computers doesn?t look like a longtime niche. The company is moving toward the consumer electronics space, in everything from digital media boxes to handheld players?but that is even more vicious and margin-thin territory than the PC biz. Even for Steve Jobs, going up against Sony has to look a bit scary. So does Apple license their cool media software for others to build into devices? The one time they tried licensing, Apple execs pulled the plug quickly. The elegant fusion of hardware and software is the DNA of Apple; seeing the Apple logo come up on the screen of some tinny consumer junk seems like sacrilege. Apple needs a long-term partnership, or even an outright sale, to someone who really knows how to play the game. My candidate: Canon. Jobs has a long-term relationship with the company (they helped him both get into and out of his NeXT computer venture). And check out those new ads with an Apple on one page and a Canon camera on the other: when you give that much expensive space to someone they better be more than just a friend.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/856167.asp?cp1=1"; target="_blank">The full article</a> from MSNBC.
I guess we'd have no problems getting OSX scanner drivers...
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
Apple Gets Married:
There are only so many redesigns of the iMac left for Cupertino, and being the Bang and Olufsen of computers doesn?t look like a longtime niche. The company is moving toward the consumer electronics space, in everything from digital media boxes to handheld players?but that is even more vicious and margin-thin territory than the PC biz. Even for Steve Jobs, going up against Sony has to look a bit scary. So does Apple license their cool media software for others to build into devices? The one time they tried licensing, Apple execs pulled the plug quickly. The elegant fusion of hardware and software is the DNA of Apple; seeing the Apple logo come up on the screen of some tinny consumer junk seems like sacrilege. Apple needs a long-term partnership, or even an outright sale, to someone who really knows how to play the game. My candidate: Canon. Jobs has a long-term relationship with the company (they helped him both get into and out of his NeXT computer venture). And check out those new ads with an Apple on one page and a Canon camera on the other: when you give that much expensive space to someone they better be more than just a friend.
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/856167.asp?cp1=1"; target="_blank">The full article</a> from MSNBC.
I guess we'd have no problems getting OSX scanner drivers...
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>
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<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=003661"; target="_blank">Ahem</a>
*LOCK*
(thanks Rod
Been hitting the mihr again, or what? heh
[ 01-20-2003: Message edited by: murbot ]</p>