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Date: 2001-01-11 16:12:58

Comment:

I agree.  The hardware is absolutely great.  They bring us USB, Firewire, iDVD, the Newton handheld, good looking PCs, etc.  They've got a great R&D team.  Their problem is that they don't have a great marketing team.  I hate MacOS myself.  But you'd be surprised all the people that disagree(even IBM PC people).  I'm sorry.  There are plenty of things that are "easier" to do in Windows (ie, closing a program; creating a shortcut).

I think that Jobs has done all that he could do, and it's time for him to go.  Apple's a troubled company.  Their refusal to enter the PC market with their OS has been their biggest mistake thus far.  As much as you and I dislike MacOS, there are many people that do, and they'd love an IBM PC with MacOS.

Ideally, I think the best thing that they could do would become strictly an R&D company.  Think about it.  Intel outsources the design specs for one or more of their chips/boards to Apple.  Maybe Compaq gets them to design new cases that are more userfriendly(USB in the front of the computer, etc).  I think it'd work.  They clearly don't have the marketing power that the rest of the PC industry does.  Their stuff is overpriced and underpowered, so something drastic has to be done.

Of course, this is just my opinion.  What do you think?