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Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

infinity396 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:30:06 -0000

Actually try again... You're way off on the percentage, at least according to Yahoo Finance...You'd be up over 1000% for Apple, considering the price alone on the chart shows a 1000% change and thats not counting the 2 stock splits that Apple has had in that time.. Meaning if you bought 100 Shares in January 2000 of Apple for $25 and didn't buy any more, you'd now have 400 Shares worth $259.35, so your $2500 investment(+ Brokerage costs) would now be worth $103740.. Not really an Apple fan but kind of wish I had Invested in 2000 now.. hindsight and all.. Google has went from it's IPO of $100 in 2004 to around 500 currently and over 600 at 1 point in the past year.. It is probaly a little flatter due to the cost per share though, If they split to bring it back to a more reasonable price they would probaly jump up pretty quickly again..

http://finance.yahoo.com/ec...

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Grand_Poobah — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:56:52 -0000

yes... they have a long way to go before they have to be defragged regularly, have virus scans run on them daily, crash, seize up, etc.

Thank god as you pointed out they have a long way to go for them to get to that point.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Grand_Poobah — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:55:06 -0000

Correct as I explained it uses the MACH kernel... a micro kernel. This is why some things run better on Mac and some things run worse. This is why they have to maintain tight control over their hardware due to the uniqueness of the kernel; most hardware and softweare manufacturers assume a monolithic kernel and build for that.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Grand_Poobah — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:51:42 -0000

one: Mac BROWSER was hacked. Unlike Windows, Safari is not shoved down our throats and we can remove it. Easy fix.

two: Mac does NOT use BSD as a kernel; it uses MACH; it is a micro-kernel with a BSD SHELL and tools (learn the difference). Mac is the only mainstream OS using a Microkernel which makes it so different and unique from Linux and Windows.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

chris — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:16:37 -0000

Going to the office the day after the company meeting? Not likely. It's the full timers excuse to an extended weekend while the poor vendors pick up the lion share of work.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

PhiladelphiaSteve — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:05 -0000

I was once in the room when someone mentioned researching an item by "Google-ing" it.
The room suddenly became VERY quiet and Steve asked him to repeat his comment and reminded him he was giving a "career statement" when he did.
The REST of us thought it was quite funny...

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Name — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:04:43 -0000

Have you seen the keynotes? There are PLENTY of people in that room using WM, RIM, Android, etc. you would have to be really naive to think that EVERYONE in that room is sporting an iPhone. Jobs would probably have no reaction to someone taking a picture of him on a non-iPhone device. I know Jobs is kind of a jerk when it comes to his employees being "loyal", but I really do not think he would have reacted like Ballmer did.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Chris — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:22:00 -0000

Personally I want an operator subsidized Nintendo DS and MP3 player with a decent phone inside and a nice Fisher-Price user interface too :)

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

cfo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:18:51 -0000

Ballmer was fine to joke about it. Sounds like it was all in good fun, too.

This would be akin to a Pepsi company meeting where the CEO walks by an employee who is drinking a Coke.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

SolusCado — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:30:55 -0000

How is this at all relevant to the story/article?

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Name — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:49:01 -0000

"you just don't pick up the CEO of Chevy in a BMW."

Extremely apt comparison.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Guest — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:31:12 -0000

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Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

gerald1974 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:35:40 -0000

That's poor sportsmanship on Balmer really. Steve Jobs really isn't much better though.

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Eastsider — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:10:15 -0000

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Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Hrunga Zmuda — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:15:43 -0000

You're the one without a clue. Apple's had Applesript for well over a decade. It's Windows that's catching up in this particular case.

PowerShell is more than an administrative tool? That's cool. I'm glad for WIndows users. Applescript has made my life very much easier for years and years.

You sure set up a lot of straw men with your arguments. Aren't you afraid they might gang up on you?

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

herbys — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:10:29 -0000

I use PowerShell in Windows (and no, it is not just a shell, it is a full object based development environment) and VBScript plus WShell, which are not just administrative tools but general purpose programming languages that can be used for basically anything, including automating apps. Apple is playing catch up where you think its breaking new ground (what's next, you are going to brag that your phone has this new tech called "copy and paste"?). So I guess you don't know what you are talking about.
Regarding the point about few people switching from Mac to PC I guess you should be able to do the math that it is because few people are using Macs in the first place!!! (7% according to most statistics). If you can't realize that, there's little I can say that will make you reason.
I know well that I can run PC apps in the mac, but that doesn't do anyfhing to the mac ecosystem. The experience is simply better while staying inside a single OS (don't make me list the reasons, if you can't see them it's your problem) and the fact that I have to says a lot. It is funny that you say that PCs can't run Apple software. There's no technical reason why that's not possible, it is just that nobody would invest the time in writing an emulator to run the very few apps available for mac and not for Windows. You have a platform for which literally millions of apps are available, and a platform for which there are a few and you imagine someone would care about running the few apps for the later in the former????
And no, I'm not equating size with quality, I think you need to learn how to read. I'm saying that quantity is important, and when the difference is 100:1 there's no contest. THe apps I need are there for Windows, and are very high quality, whereas they are not there for Apple at all. Many devices I use are not compatible with Apple (I use a digital osciloscope, a remote wireless camera, a dedicated media center with a specialized control, an X10 home controller, a car engine programmer and many other devices that no one would care to write drivers for that are not for Linux or for Windows). Maybe you've been using Apple long enough that you think there's nothing outside that world, but you are missing 99% of the world then, and that's your problem. You might say "I don't care, I'm happy with my apple and it's tiny world", and that's OK for you, but when you claim that the rest of the world should move to your little box, you are being delusional. Not everyone is happy with the same few apps, the same three laptops, the same few devices and the closed environment.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Ridley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:36:48 -0000

Consumer Reports? Try again, go read Car and Driver for a vehicle comparo. Have them compare a BMW to a Nissan, Toyota and Honda and see what wins.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

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Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

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Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Carl Setzer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:26:49 -0000

Office?

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Carl Setzer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:25:29 -0000

Aren't those credit card readers built on the Palm platform?

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

Nelson Manuel Jesus Lopes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:31:06 -0000

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TriangleJuice — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:49:52 -0000

I just wanted to see what happened to the comments section when I write words like Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Sorry if it breaks the blog.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

neuraldisruption — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:02:45 -0000

It is just stupid to pay a luxury price for an inferior machine, when you have better options, most apples have a long road to walk before they can stand as equals between similar priced Dells.