Jolly Roger

In article <4c8d4baf$0$5055$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Jolly Roger wrote:
>
> > What matters most to Apple is that its customers are happy.
>
> Apple has fiduciary duty to its shareholders to perform well. That its
> its primary duty and legal obligation.
>
> Having happy customers is means to get it, it is not a goal.

Wrong.

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Jolly Roger

In article <i6jec2$ggj$1@tioat.net>,
Junior <anonymous@not-for-mail.invalid> wrote:

> George Kerby wrote:
> > On 9/12/10 3:03 PM, in article
> > jollyroger-0C1D85.15033512092010@news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger"
> ><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In article <i6ja9d$fi6$1@tioat.net>,
> >> Junior <anonymous@not-for-mail.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>> SMS wrote:
> >>>> On 9/11/2010 5:11 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> >>>>> SMS wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't know why you're so upset about Android outselling iOS. Clearly
> >>>>>> Apple is happy where they are with the iPhone and has no intention of
> >>>>>> licensing the OS in order to be "#1" since that's never been of
> >>>>>> importance to them in the past with their computers.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> the Apple II had a huge piece of the personal computer market, until IBM
> >>>>> woke up and produced some junk with the IBM label on it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The MAC then found itself with a huge piece of the graphic artist market
> >>>>> until the big apps were ported to Windows.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Mac was great except that its closed architecture drove all the
> >>>> business, commercial, and industrial customers from the Apple II to the
> >>>> PC. I was working for a company that made networking add-on cards for
> >>>> the Apple II. All our customers switched to the PC architecture because
> >>>> of the closed Mac architecture. They never switched back even when Apple
> >>>> went back to an architecture with PCI slots.
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering how much influence Steve Jobs (Peace be upon him) has
> >>> had on the Apple Sacred Business Model and if he has the authority
> >>> to issue a fatwa calling for the death of Linux, and supporters of
> >>> Industry Standard Architecture, Open-source software and other
> >>> infidels.
> >>
> >> Don't quit your day job, Junior.
> >
> > I thinkin' he may have had his 'tongue in cheek'?
>
> I'm trying to determine how ludicrous something needs to be and the
> span of time before someone replies who apparently doesn't get it.
> There's a line from the movie, Meet Joe Black that comes to mind:
> "Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and
> you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about."

The fact that you're one of those people who actually sat through "Meet
Joe Black" without vomiting all over yourself says everything I need to
know about you.

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SMS

On 9/8/2010 9:47 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:

<snip>

> The iPhone is an excellent device with a few glaringly annoying flaws.
> Its "disposability" is one of them. Are there any features of the iPhone
> you'd like to see changed, or is anything boxed in Cupertino blessed with
> perfection?

Pretty much everything, and everyone in Cupertino is blessed with
perfection. Every morning I wake up and just marvel about how perfect it is.

George Kerby

On 9/13/10 8:21 AM, in article
jollyroger-37486C.08213713092010@news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger"
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <i6jec2$ggj$1@tioat.net>,
> Junior <anonymous@not-for-mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> George Kerby wrote:
>>> On 9/12/10 3:03 PM, in article
>>> jollyroger-0C1D85.15033512092010@news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger"
>>> <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <i6ja9d$fi6$1@tioat.net>,
>>>> Junior <anonymous@not-for-mail.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> SMS wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/11/2010 5:11 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>>>>>>> SMS wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know why you're so upset about Android outselling iOS. Clearly
>>>>>>>> Apple is happy where they are with the iPhone and has no intention of
>>>>>>>> licensing the OS in order to be "#1" since that's never been of
>>>>>>>> importance to them in the past with their computers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the Apple II had a huge piece of the personal computer market, until IBM
>>>>>>> woke up and produced some junk with the IBM label on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The MAC then found itself with a huge piece of the graphic artist market
>>>>>>> until the big apps were ported to Windows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Mac was great except that its closed architecture drove all the
>>>>>> business, commercial, and industrial customers from the Apple II to the
>>>>>> PC. I was working for a company that made networking add-on cards for
>>>>>> the Apple II. All our customers switched to the PC architecture because
>>>>>> of the closed Mac architecture. They never switched back even when Apple
>>>>>> went back to an architecture with PCI slots.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering how much influence Steve Jobs (Peace be upon him) has
>>>>> had on the Apple Sacred Business Model and if he has the authority
>>>>> to issue a fatwa calling for the death of Linux, and supporters of
>>>>> Industry Standard Architecture, Open-source software and other
>>>>> infidels.
>>>>
>>>> Don't quit your day job, Junior.
>>>
>>> I thinkin' he may have had his 'tongue in cheek'?
>>
>> I'm trying to determine how ludicrous something needs to be and the
>> span of time before someone replies who apparently doesn't get it.
>> There's a line from the movie, Meet Joe Black that comes to mind:
>> "Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and
>> you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about."
>
> The fact that you're one of those people who actually sat through "Meet
> Joe Black" without vomiting all over yourself says everything I need to
> know about you.

Anything with Brad Pitt leads me to uncontrollable cookie-chunking.