Ballmer: No Respect For Apple
Martin Stein has portion of an interview Steve Ballmer did recently. Click here to read it.
Ballmer sounds childish; when the intervier asks '?couldn't you just buy a Mac without hesitation since Apple opened up their machines for Windows?' he answers 'No, we prefer real PCs'
If this attitude is prevelant at Microsoft it demonstrates an amazing cluelessness. You don't have to like your compition but it's essential that you give them the respect they're due. If you don't they're going to continually clean your clock.
Microsoft's clock is starting to look pretty spotless.
Ballmer sounds childish; when the intervier asks '?couldn't you just buy a Mac without hesitation since Apple opened up their machines for Windows?' he answers 'No, we prefer real PCs'
If this attitude is prevelant at Microsoft it demonstrates an amazing cluelessness. You don't have to like your compition but it's essential that you give them the respect they're due. If you don't they're going to continually clean your clock.
Microsoft's clock is starting to look pretty spotless.
Comments
Originally posted by Placebo
Eh, or a computer with a desktop processor and a replaceable graphics card, whatever.
PC = personal computer. So you're saying the vast majority of laptops aren't real PCs?
Originally posted by glurx
If this attitude is prevelant at Microsoft . . .
It's not. Of the 5 or so people I know at Microsoft, 3 of them own macs. Given that the new macs can run windows, it's highly likely that the other 2 now joined the club.
Originally posted by Chucker
And a "real PC", in your book, is what exactly? A minimum of five fans?
A real PC is a system that has to be thrown out with each new version of Windows. The really sad thing is that Balmer isn't the only clueless person at Microsoft. Anybody remember Mr Gates's comments about how useless the Internet was?
Originally posted by Chucker
And a "real PC", in your book, is what exactly? A minimum of five fans?
ummm....no; not per se
It means UPGRADABILITY and EXPANTION SLOTS/BAYS!!!!
I also find it ironic how the people at Bungie studios (halo devolpers) use powermacs...and they are owned by Microsoft...
I don't understand peoples reluctance to get Macs now. They look better, take up less room (well not counting the powermac lol) and have much better software. Also the hardware just WORKS.
Originally posted by glurx
Historically a PC has been a computer that runs a version of Windows released in the last couple of years.
Historically, "PC" is a term coined by Apple for the Apple II.
My point earlier was that laptops are PCs just as much as desktops are, and customizability and expandability have absolutely zero to do with "PC".
Originally posted by kiwimac
PC means personal computer, as in not a mainframe or supercomputer, a computer your average joe smoe can have in their homes and offices.
Which includes computers that aren't customizable.
i will be able to upgrade to conroe if i feel like it
I know there's an upgrade path from the current Yonah Core Duos to the Merom Core Duos, but where did you see that you could drop in a Conroe? That's a heck of an upgrade path if that's the case. There are quite a few PC motherboards out there now that don't even allow this, including Intel's own offerings, and we know Apple isn't going to be releasing firmware updates to support processor upgrades.
Originally posted by Chucker
Historically, "PC" is a term coined by Apple for the Apple II.
My point earlier was that laptops are PCs just as much as desktops are, and customizability and expandability have absolutely zero to do with "PC".
I think a little blue company called IBM may dis-agree with that...In fact, IIRC, unitl about 10 years ago, PC Compatible was a copyrighted designation that IBM licenced to third parties for marketing, oince it became a generic term they just let it go, unlike say Coke.
Originally posted by a_greer
I think a little blue company called IBM may dis-agree with that...In fact, IIRC, unitl about 10 years ago, PC Compatible was a copyrighted designation that IBM licenced to third parties for marketing, oince it became a generic term they just let it go, unlike say Coke.
Yeah, not true. You're thinking of IBM PC Compatible.
PC's like the Altair or the Apple II were called PC's way before IBM realized they should get they're act together and started making their own in the early 80's.
edit: Quote from Wikipedia:
The phrase "personal computer" was common currency before 1981, and was used as early as 1972 to characterize Xerox PARC's Alto. However, due to the success of the IBM PC, what had been a generic term came to mean specifically a microcomputer compatible with IBM's specification.