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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Saturday, August 07, 2004

Apple needs a reality check, and a kick in the pants

Someone at MacNETv2 needs a hug.

Steve Jobs's cancer scare: "Since Steve Jobs has had the ultimate ‘death scare’ I suspect he will not only become a much more generous person, he’ll accelerate all the things in his control. I expect that wherever Jobs has wanted to take Apple, he’ll speed up the process once he comes back to work. I could be wrong, but I think his next keynote speech will be unlike anything we’ve seen before."

Airport Express: "Airport Extreme and the 802.11g standard simply sucks. Probably always will..."

iPod Mini: "The fact that you still cannot walk into an Apple store and buy an iPod mini continues to piss me off."

Apple vs. Real: "Why would Apple have a problem with Real offering a way for their music tracks to play on an iPod? Seems to me Steve Jobs is repeating himself with holding this technology too close the vest, like he did with the Mac OS, and it will wind up biting him on the a**. I thought the point of the iTunes Music Store was to sell iPods."

New G5's still not shipping: "Again, vaporware. It’s one thing not to hit the 3GHz promise made last year (that I understand), but it’s quite another not to be able to ship the ones that were announced."

Games: "How many times has Apple said that games will soon be released on both the PC and the Mac at the same time? When are we, as Mac users, going to realize that this is just not going to happen?"

Linux: "Linux with a larger market share than the Mac? Impossible. Well, not only it is possible, it’s already happened."

Back-to-school: "The problem with the iMac was not that it didn’t have a G5 processor. It was price. The iMac, for all its coolness, was too expensive when compared to consumer PC’s. But instead of cutting the prices Apple kills it in order to get ready for a G5 iMac."

Bad management at Apple: "Apple has managed to make so many mistakes over the last year that it makes Apple look like one of the worse managed companies around. And it is ... How can anyone remain positive about Apple when it is making so many stupid moves, and being so disingenuous about them?"

OK, so I don't agree with all of this. But he's right about a lot of it, and in many ways is parroting comments I've made here on the Nexus.

And if you think I was a little harsh about Bill Ballmer earlier today, check out his clasic response to this MacNETv2 story (search for "Bill Palmer"). He's a real class act, that one.

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