thedba

hexclock said:

thedba said:

jimh2 said:

The only other person who can confirm this conversation is dead so there is no need to drag Jobs into his need to sell his book. 

I'd like to meet 10 people who buy this book and read it. Of course it will be on The NY Times best seller list but by now everyone should know by now that bookstores by this garbage sell a few and return the rest to the publisher where they will be resold to the stores that peddle other non-interesting zero value books and merchandise that cannot be sold in legitimate store. This process does get authors on best seller lists.

Another thing that happens is the company (Dell) will buy enough of these to give to their employees and this counts as a sale. At least his employees will have some kindling.

People alive write books or talk about dead people very often.
I was watching a show about mathematics the other day and the narrator, very much alive, was talking about Pythagoras, Euclid, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss ... etc.
Guess what all these great mathematicians have in common? ........ They're all dead.

Back to topic, why wouldn't Michael Dell reminisce about that moment in history, especially since he was personally involved in it? 

What was the name of the show? Sounds interesting. 

applesauce007 said:

I am glad that no deal was made with Dell.

Michael Dell once said that if he was in charge of Apple he would shut the company down and return the money to investors.

Dell is now worth $79.3 Billion and Apple is worth $2.3 Trillion... Go figure
See video at about 1:30

skingers said:

I don't believe this story.  Jobs was the guy that Killed Mac clones and made OSX upgrades free.  Money grubbing by putting his baby on the beigest of beige boxes just does not seem consistent with his demonstrated record.

Steve Jobs wanted Sony's Vaio computers to run Mac OS X

jimh2 said:

The only other person who can confirm this conversation is dead so there is no need to drag Jobs into his need to sell his book. 

I'd like to meet 10 people who buy this book and read it. Of course it will be on The NY Times best seller list but by now everyone should know by now that bookstores by this garbage sell a few and return the rest to the publisher where they will be resold to the stores that peddle other non-interesting zero value books and merchandise that cannot be sold in legitimate store. This process does get authors on best seller lists.

Another thing that happens is the company (Dell) will buy enough of these to give to their employees and this counts as a sale. At least his employees will have some kindling.

darkvader said:

What a silly article.

The Surface is a computer.  Not a great computer, but an actual computer that you can install any software you want on it.

The iPad is a toy, stuck in a walled garden app store.