Let's say we are the aiCEO of Apple...
What would you do if you can be the CEO of Apple in the next 6 months (hardware only) ?
For me, i would do this:
Cheap Rack Server: one with Darwin only, one with Mac OS X Server. With G4 startin at 400 Mhz .
Business Pizza G4: G4@700Mhz with an ATI Rage 8 MB, one PCI slot bundled with Office X, Filemaker Pro, Palm Desktop and a iTools Businness account for templates, AppleScript, etc.
Advertising: No Viruses, just the work done.
Gamer Pizza G4: G4@ 933 Mhz with an GF4ti one PCI slot bundled with some good games like AoE2, Giants, OttoMatic, Mike's Cards, Civ 3, Sims, Chess, Quake 3 & Diablo 2 for X,
and a free 1 month account to World of Warcraft (hopping)and a iTools Games account for multiplayers, tips, etc.
Advertising: Console not admitted
All this stuff with no monitors...
If you want a AIO you've got the Luxo Lamp.
And for the Pro:
Put a fast G4 or G5 asap with DDR, Rapid IO, Faster SuperDrive, GeForce 4 Ti, etc.
Some bundle for Publishing (Adobe), Web Design (Macromedia), Movies & DVD (Apple)...
Do you think i have a chance to grow the marketshare of Apple with that ?
For me, i would do this:
Cheap Rack Server: one with Darwin only, one with Mac OS X Server. With G4 startin at 400 Mhz .
Business Pizza G4: G4@700Mhz with an ATI Rage 8 MB, one PCI slot bundled with Office X, Filemaker Pro, Palm Desktop and a iTools Businness account for templates, AppleScript, etc.
Advertising: No Viruses, just the work done.
Gamer Pizza G4: G4@ 933 Mhz with an GF4ti one PCI slot bundled with some good games like AoE2, Giants, OttoMatic, Mike's Cards, Civ 3, Sims, Chess, Quake 3 & Diablo 2 for X,
and a free 1 month account to World of Warcraft (hopping)and a iTools Games account for multiplayers, tips, etc.
Advertising: Console not admitted
All this stuff with no monitors...
If you want a AIO you've got the Luxo Lamp.
And for the Pro:
Put a fast G4 or G5 asap with DDR, Rapid IO, Faster SuperDrive, GeForce 4 Ti, etc.
Some bundle for Publishing (Adobe), Web Design (Macromedia), Movies & DVD (Apple)...
Do you think i have a chance to grow the marketshare of Apple with that ?
Comments
A rack server's an interesting idea, but is Mac OS X established enough to take off into rack-space? It could probably be done with much better spec CPUs than 400MHz. Similarly, 700MHz G4s and 8MB Rage 128s are old technology: newer, more impressive technology won't cost much more in 6 months time. (e.g. GeForce 2 MXs or Rage 128 Ultra 32MB)
Using a lack of virii as an advert would attract ha><ors like flies to rotting stuff. Baiting virii writers like that is unadvisable. (However, they'd probably have less chance with OS X)
Games playing consumers who buy sans monitor aren't going to be impressed by a 933MHz G4, especially if its marketed against the Xbox.
BTW, that "long holiday" is called retirement
as far as apples goes... DDR to squeeze some better performance out of these lagging chips.
[ 03-21-2002: Message edited by: janitor ]</p>
<strong>What would you do if you can be the CEO of Apple in the next 6 months (hardware only) ?
For me, i would do this:
Cheap Rack Server:...
Business Pizza G4:...
Advertising: No Viruses, just the work done.
Gamer Pizza G4: ...
Advertising: Console not admitted
And for the Pro:
Put a fast G4 or G5 asap with DDR...
Do you think i have a chance to grow the marketshare of Apple with that ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
No, you will not grow Apple's marketshare. Your directives show all the subtlty of a bull in a china shop; smashing around randomly with no finesse or delicacy.
When will anyone realize Apple is doing great now doing what it wants, it's way. Trying to out think and out do Steve Jobs and the rest of the executive team just shows ignorance and and lack of experience.
[ 03-21-2002: Message edited by: clonenode ]</p>
<strong>Cheap Rack Server: one with Darwin only, one with Mac OS X Server. With G4 startin at 400 Mhz .
Business Pizza G4: G4@700Mhz with an ATI Rage 8 MB, one PCI slot bundled with Office X, Filemaker Pro, Palm Desktop and a iTools Businness account for templates, AppleScript, etc.
Gamer Pizza G4: G4@ 933 Mhz with an GF4ti one PCI slot bundled with some good games like AoE2, Giants, OttoMatic, Mike's Cards, Civ 3, Sims, Chess, Quake 3 & Diablo 2 for X,
and a free 1 month account to World of Warcraft (hopping)and a iTools Games account for multiplayers, tips, etc.
And for the Pro:
Put a fast G4 or G5 asap with DDR, Rapid IO, Faster SuperDrive, GeForce 4 Ti, etc.
Some bundle for Publishing (Adobe), Web Design (Macromedia), Movies & DVD (Apple)...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I am so glad that by making all these models you've just signed apple's death warrent.
I see you like pizza box.
With all those game bundles do you know how much cost will it add ?
And wtf is itools game account !?
And how would that rack server be cheap ??
Do you have a clue that you will need to build scsi / scsi HD in the rackmount server in order for it to be called a server class machine ??
Do you have a clue how expensive that is !?
MacOS X only cost like 100 dollars and even less for apple to bundle it with the rackmount, so bundling Darwin only increases Apple's software maintenance Cost to keep another version of software for darwin.
Tell me how come you are so smart that you included everything expensive in the G4 without even quoting the price ?
Do you think the engineers in apple are stupid or retard ?
tnx for bashing me btw
waht would you do to open new market for apple...
oh and btw
iTools Games account like the microsoft games zone... you know that being an apple game player is not fun when you're alone.
and for the rack server... do you know that you don't need speed but fast hard drive (dual SCSI 160), a bit of memory, a decent processor, a good *nix server and a secure remote access...
So... like i suggest in my first post... pretend you're steve and roll out the goods.
<strong>iTools Games account like the microsoft games zone... you know that being an apple game player is not fun when you're alone.
and for the rack server... do you know that you don't need speed but fast hard drive (dual SCSI 160), a bit of memory, a decent processor, a good *nix server and a secure remote access...</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you get on Battle.net, I am pretty sure you are not alone. Each game will have it's own game server, why recreate something while there's some working ones ?
You do know that SCSI Card (Specially SCSI 160) and SCSI Harddrive are expensive right !?
I didn't mean to bash you, but as ridiculous as your specs seems, it's still ridiculous.
o and I see you like hopping
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A server version would be nice for those of us who want to use Mac OS X. Hard for us to know how it would fare in the larger world.
I really like the idea of a business Mac. Something simple, with lower cost. If not a pizza box then a small tower with perhaps one PCI slot.
I would like a similar configuration for science and engineering applications. A generic mother board, a couple PCI slots, simple graphics. You could build these into large machines or experiments.
I would add some variety to the laptop lineup. In addition to the current offerings I'd add an uber-PowerBook at the high end with maxed out LCD, maybe dual CPUs, superdrive, perhaps a PCI slot. It would weigh ten pounds but would serve those who need a transportable machine. At the low end I'd offer a mini-TiBook. Deep metallic blue or green case, 12.1 inch screen, specs similar to the iBook, weight just 2.5 pounds or so.
The main point is that it would be good for Apple to have a wider variety of products than they now offer.
Regarding the pro stuff, I suspect they have that covered. It was interesting that the G4s were not even mentioned at Tokyo. Last summer in NY the iMacs were hardly mentioned and look what happened in January. Also, the recent speed bump was only just to 1GHz. Certainly they could have pushed 1.2GHz or so. It sounds like they are low balling so that when the hot stuff comes out in July they can brag about what a big jump it is.
Don't argue, it works in Sim City.
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2. Make a 10" widescreen TiBook with no media drives.
3. Outlaw pizza boxes.
4. Bluetooth installed in all desktops and books within the year.
5. Wireless audio jacks for home stereos.
6. Develop the new iApp, iPhone, which would elegantly and seemlessly organize and update all contact information for a wide variety of enabled phones from partners like Nokia, etc. Make it the iTunes for phone and contact info. That would accelerate the decline of the pda (as much as I like them and would continue to use mine) since much of what you use them for would be transferred to the iPod and mobile phone.
7. Sell the Leer jet and payoff the mpeg 4 people.
8. Convince Peter Jackson to composite Steve Balmer's face on Lurtz in the DVD edition of Lord of the Rings.
9. Forge a partnership with Wacom to produce an 8.5" x 11" iSketch device that would be relatively high res and have the ability to be a pen inputed notebook and sketch book in millions of colors with flash memory. A mega Diddlebug with the only other feature - wireless or firewire input/output of graphical data using the iSketch iApp.
Next I would hire the A-team to assassinate Mr Gates (of hell).
Then I would see Apple gain a 40% market share, sit back and relax, playing on the latest mac console, running Doom 4.
All machines would have 4 hot swap drive bays and a slim 32x cd rom drive with 16/32MB ATI Rage video built on to the motherboard with a 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet card and I would use DDR memory(266/333).
$2299 - 1U 800Mhz w/ 73GB SCSI-160, 512mb, 16MB ATI Rage, 10/100/1000 Nic Card, and OSX Server Unlimited client.
$2699 - 1U 933Mhz w/ 73GB SCSI-160, 512mb, 32MB ATI Rage, 10/100/1000 Nic Card, and OSX Server Unlimited client.
$3199 - 2U Dual 1.0Ghz w/ 2x73GB SCSI-160, 1024mb, 32MB ATI Rage, 10/100/1000 Nic Card, and OSX Server Unlimited client.
The pricing is unreasonable, but what the hell.
Other than that, I think I'd somehow allow for each model to be a little more user-configurable/customizable via the online Apple Store AND the Apple retail stores.
Be able to choose hard drive, video card and optical drive in every model, and simply pay for what you want or need.
Want a DVD-only iBook with a 100GB hard drive? Fine. Order it that way and pay for it.
Want a PowerBook with a SuperDrive (assuming one is somewhere in the works and on the way), but aren't concerned with a top-notch, high-end video card or a huge hard drive? Fine. Order one that way...and pay for it.
Stock models would still exist, just because most people are probably happy.
But for pro users and tweakers, wouldn't it be cool to truly be able to build the Mac of your dreams?
That's it, really.
Oh, and I'd advertise the shit out of the company. DEFINITELY take a more aggressive, serious approach to marketing.
[ 03-27-2002: Message edited by: FERRO ]</p>
i would marry jonathan ive, and put him on a diet. just like marlon brando, he was once so "fine."
but we still all love him in Ronkonkoma. he's our way out....
was this a serious thread? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
(Sans the Educational tower). get DDR ASAP.
develope a kick ass dual G4 Rack Mounted Server.
Make OS X uncrashable.
AppleWorks 7 (cocoa)
DVD Studio Pro for X
to name a few...
Then I would develop/release a whole line of "iPDA's": digital camera, actual PDA, video camera, and a TV hub for DVD, recording of shows, and more!
Further, there needs to be support for remote reporting. Most of the industry uses SNMP agents to report status on heat, drive usage, traffic, etc. If there are agents out there for OS X, please let me know, I sure haven't seen them.
Anyone know of a way to team NIC's for added redundancy? You can in NT and 2K.
Please don't mis-understand me, I love OS X. LOVE IT.
If anyone knows of solutions to these problems, I would love to hear about it. I really want to be wrong on this. Please email me, so I can join the rest of the annointed.
[ 03-29-2002: Message edited by: tsukurite ]</p>