Luis.A.Masanti

‘Analysts, analysts, analysts…’ (say that in Steve Balmer's monkey jumping style!)

To those of us that were paying attention in the old days of the ‘speed wars’… Intel allways spoke of ‘CPU speeds’ without paying attention to ‘user experience’… due, of course, to Windows.
Apple always put more attention at the user experience,

Here is happening something similar.
When analysts ‘see Apple in China’… they pay attention to ‘the number of unit sold.’
And, of course, Chinese cellphone manufacturers… sell more!
But Apple is the global leader in revenues!
And that's what should analysts look for!

But investors  bought like crazy! 

During long years… the Macintosh was unable to hit a strike in business. It was a ‘toy computer.’
Then it came the iPhone… and a big demand of using it in the enterprise —pushed by CEOS— opened not only the door for cellphones… sorry Blackberry… but also for laptops… If given the choice… employees prefer Apple devices.

Now… it seems that the Vision Pro is going directly to the enterprise.
Maybe companies are just… testing it… but who knows what would happen next.

(As a master in marketing… Tim said that 50% Fortune 500 companies ‘bought’ Vision Pros… but did not commented if they returned those after the two weeks return widow.)

It is crazy! Foxconn shut down the factory…  but open others in India and other Easter countries.
Foxconn is still making money from Apple.

But in the title appears only ’Apple’… As usual: “Blaming Apple brings page views… aka ad revenues-”

Some other comments… from the more rational side of my brain.

First, I bought my first Macintosh 512k in October 1985. Living in Argentina —and without the existence internet— the majority of my knowledge comes from MacUser and MacWorld magazines, as from developers news… I was part of the Argentine Apple Developers Group.

First. on OpenDoc and Jobs sharing computers.
Those are not compatible. OpenDoc… Open Document… was intended to be like using [Adobe] InDesigh to lay out the page, that include a block of [Microsoft] Excel… fully functional… and being able to edit… in the document… an image using [?] Pixelmator.
What Steve showed was more of the actual Google-style workspace.
Previously, it was the… never dying idea of… the network computer…
In this case the processing was in the computer not the servers, and in applications, not the browser.

As for Lisa in the developers' meeting of 1983… we should remember that applications to the original Macintosh 128k had to be programmed in… the Apple Lisa!
Even… then it became the Macintosh Max (I do not remember well). The Lisa's monitor had rectangular pixels, and the Macintosh had square pixels.

A side comment to the spell checker. Back in the early 60s… Unix that was developed for the Publishing branch of AT&T had the Writers' Workbench… a series of programs to check spell, correct grammar, etcetera. When they run Shakespeare's play thru it… it declared William —the other one— ‘a lousy writer.’

As for chips… With the PowerPC… Apple defined the specs, IBM designed the chip, and Motorola build it. So… things used to go very bad.
This is… maybe… one of the resign why Steve Jobs developed his famous… amniotic control of the essential technologies of Apple's products… that become Apple Silicon.
On the other hand… back in the early days of Apple II, they designed the IWM —Integrated Wozniak Machine—… the controller for the disk drive… that used a variable speed system.

And for the Intel transition… NeXT operating system —the basis of Macintosh OS X— was from almost the start written for Motorola 68030 —first NeXT chip—, PowerPC… and Intel.

The only thing that I think I will never forgive Steve Jobs is discontinuing HyperCard!

My personal… BEST WWDC… was WWDC01 when I was there in San Jose seeing Steve Jobs launching Macintosh OS X… Did it mean ‘Ten’ or ‘(Uni)X.’

Together with the iMacs previously… and the september launch of iPod…
2001: Apple Odyssey… the year it all started!