Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The early Macs were cute little computers and they looked
cool. However, technologically the hardware was no more advanced or
powerful than the early PCs. Mac OS, however, was something else. It
was more than a decade ahead of Microsoft's DOS. It was mouse driven,
WYSIWYG, user friendly and just plain mind blowing. It should have been
the operating system on everybody's desk and the one most developers
were developing for not DOS.
Aside from the fact that Mac OS was developed for
Motorola's architecture and not Intel (something that could be changed
as we now know), Apple was more interested in using its software to
sell computers than selling the software itself. As Microsoft
subsequently proved, there's far more money and market dominance to be
gained in selling software.
Apple shares have had a pull back of about 25% off their highs last
year. In order to keeping growing at its phenomenal rate, Apple has to
find new markets. The iPhone is targeting one of those markets.
However, what makes the iPhone unique today is the same thing that has
always made Macs unique - the operating system.
At Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs said companies serious about developing
good software make their own hardware. And Mr Jobs is 100% right. Apple
has probably consistently developed the most advanced personal computer
operating systems in the world because it has developed them in
conjunction with the hardware that they work on (the same thing applies
to the iPhone).
In the case of Macs and PCs these days, however, aside from the
elegance of the design of Macs, there is very little that separates the
hardware under the hood. In fact, one could even imagine that Steve
Jobs has known all along that the move to Intel this time round was
really all about the operating system and not the hardware. Perhaps it
wasn't about putting Windows on Macs as much as putting Mac OS X on PCs.
Once again, would you pay a couple of hundred extra for the option of putting Leopard on your PC?
David Bass
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