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Just found this interesting article @ Wired.com. It’s quoting top 15 quotes on apple and it’s products by various celebs and techies and off course proved dumpest of all time!

It’s easy to dump ire on anlysts for getting it wrong so often. What those guys do, however, is provide a particular service to particular people. Interpreting what analysts say in terms of truth or falsity is to forget the real lesson we should take from Prof. Frankfurt: words build worlds.

Here is two of the top predictions:

The iMac Will Fail

“The iMac will only sell to some of the true believers. The iMac doesn’t include a floppy disk drive drive for doing file backups or sharing of data. It’s an astonishing lapse from Jobs, who should have learned better… the iMac is clean, elegant, floppy-free–and doomed.” — Hiawatha Bray in the Boston Globe, 1998.

Give the Money Back

“I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” — Michael Dell in October 1997,as an immediate prelude to a renaissance that would see Apple ultimately eclipse Dell in size.

Read the full story here.