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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:22 AM EST |
It's obvious that if competitors were allowed to make knock-offs
of obsolete Apple products this would dilute their value as
collectors items, objets d'art, technology investments,
worth as much as Apple stock options ...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 07 2012 @ 01:24 PM EST |
The analogy that if Chevy made a car like an old Mustang reminded me of this
joke, and I think cars/computers are an apple/oranges argument.
Going "retro" in computers does not garner goodwill... or very
little.
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At a recent computer exposition, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer
industry with the auto industry and stated: "If General Motors had kept up
with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving
$25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, GM issued a press release stating: "If
General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving
cars with the following characteristics:
1) For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2) Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new
car.
3) Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have
to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the
car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some
reason, you would simply accept this.
4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car
to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall
the engine.
5) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five
times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent
of the roads.
6) The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be
replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
7) The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8) Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and
refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the
key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9) Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive
all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as
the old car.
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