Let them eat cake!
Michael Dell offers the following words of wisdom on Apple: “We know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle.
… It’s not to say that Apple’s products aren’t innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.”
Let’s see, ‘we all know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle’. Woah, that’s deep. Coming from an upper class princeling who has never had to worry about anything other than how to get the next million.
Would it ever occur to him that he just described EVERY SINGLE HUMAN LIFE? If he is implying that ‘what happends in the middle’ is a trivial side note of no consequence to the conclusion, why doesn’t he take his own advice and kill himself? After all, it’s the same ending to every single human life, regardless of what happens in the middle, right?
Born into a rich white upper class family, he has no idea how the rest of us live from day to day, without any hope of being a millionaire before 30.
“…the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.” No sh*t, Michael. Has it occurred to you that ‘swimming against the tide’ is what the rest of us do our whole life? What would you know about saving up for a mortgage on a 5 figure salary with three kids?
It’s hiliarious when one of these upper class doughboys thinks he can dish out advice on what other people should do with their careers.
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Nice. You don’t have to censor the word ‘shit,’ though. We don’t go for any of that over here. Fuck Michael Dell, and fuck his ‘computer company’… if you can even call it that… the just buy materials from EVERYONE else and repackage it with a logo on it.
Also, he was referring to the ill-fated SGI, inc, and how Apple has a ‘very very small market’ like SGI.. something tells me a market containing graphic designers, artists, writers, schools, and anyone with HALF A BRAIN is enough of a market. And that SGI’s customers were computer animators (with sky’s-the-limit budgets) and other people in need of UNIX-based supercomputers… Not to mention the fact that SGIs machines topped out at like over a hundred-grand or so, and a superbly equipped high-end Mac can be purchased at $7000, tops, and a nice one at $900, on the low end. I don’t recall SGI making any machines sub-$1k.
SGI was doing fine until they took the “Windows NT pill of death”. Like DEC with Alpha before them, the management of these once great companies lost nerve and decided to ‘partner’ with Microsoft.
Microsoft shafted them with hefty Windows licence fee while they spend their own R&D to port NT to their hardware. The result is a monstrosity that nobody wants (NT Alpha, which had only one native app – MSOffice). Who the fuck was going to buy a DEC Alpha to run Office??!!
After watching DEC going down in flames, you’d think SGI would be smarter than to make the exact same mistake. But ex-CEO of SGI Rick Belluzo happily took the company down that same path. It’s puzzling until you find out that Belluzo is now COO of Microsoft. Like the corrupt government officials taking lucrative jobs with defence contractors after their term. They sell out the interest of their current employers in return for a cozy setup afterwards.
It’s so fucked up that people like this get rich while thousands of honest workers are out of jobs as a result. If you get ten years for holding up a grocery store, what do you think should happen to these fuckers?
Nice. You don’t have to censor the word ‘shit,’ though. We don’t go for any of that over here. Fuck Michael Dell, and fuck his ‘computer company’… if you can even call it that… the just buy materials from EVERYONE else and repackage it with a logo on it.
Also, he was referring to the ill-fated SGI, inc, and how Apple has a ‘very very small market’ like SGI.. something tells me a market containing graphic designers, artists, writers, schools, and anyone with HALF A BRAIN is enough of a market. And that SGI’s customers were computer animators (with sky’s-the-limit budgets) and other people in need of UNIX-based supercomputers… Not to mention the fact that SGIs machines topped out at like over a hundred-grand or so, and a superbly equipped high-end Mac can be purchased at $7000, tops, and a nice one at $900, on the low end. I don’t recall SGI making any machines sub-$1k.
SGI was doing fine until they took the “Windows NT pill of death”. Like DEC with Alpha before them, the management of these once great companies lost nerve and decided to ‘partner’ with Microsoft.
Microsoft shafted them with hefty Windows licence fee while they spend their own R&D to port NT to their hardware. The result is a monstrosity that nobody wants (NT Alpha, which had only one native app – MSOffice). Who the fuck was going to buy a DEC Alpha to run Office??!!
After watching DEC going down in flames, you’d think SGI would be smarter than to make the exact same mistake. But ex-CEO of SGI Rick Belluzo happily took the company down that same path. It’s puzzling until you find out that Belluzo is now COO of Microsoft. Like the corrupt government officials taking lucrative jobs with defence contractors after their term. They sell out the interest of their current employers in return for a cozy setup afterwards.
It’s so fucked up that people like this get rich while thousands of honest workers are out of jobs as a result. If you get ten years for holding up a grocery store, what do you think should happen to these fuckers?