Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

There’s no iPhone, no iPad. There’s no iPod, no iTunes, no Android.

There’s a Windows tablet with a stylus, selling as many as they did 5 years ago. Walkmans are still popular.  Netbooks are the big rage. For phones Blackberry is still king, but Palm has a growing following and many of us are invested in it.

We have no clue what we missed.

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

There’s no iPhone, no iPad. There’s no iPod, no iTunes, no Android.

There’s a Windows tablet with a stylus, selling as many as they did 5 years ago. Walkmans are still popular.  Netbooks are the big rage. For phones Blackberry is still king, but Palm has a growing following and many of us are invested in it.

We have no clue what we missed.

+10

So great.

But you forgot the RAZR.  People would be flocking (to their carrier store) to check out the newest clamshell styling.

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

There’s no iPhone, no iPad. There’s no iPod, no iTunes, no Android.

There’s a Windows tablet with a stylus, selling as many as they did 5 years ago. Walkmans are still popular.  Netbooks are the big rage. For phones Blackberry is still king, but Palm has a growing following and many of us are invested in it.

We have no clue what we missed.

oh, and rim now has 3 CEO’s

Music is still sold primarily in album formats. The idea of 99 cents for a song is ludicrous. Want the song? Buy the album….But at the same time the Napsters and other illegal download services have rebeled against this arrogance of the music publishers.They move in numberous fronts to rupture the music system in such a manner that nobody makes any money.

Getting music is difficult, expensive….or done illegally.

The concept of an “app store” where you can buy any of hundreds of thousands of software programs for as low as 99 cents is some kind of demented futurist’s dream. What you can do is buy any of dozens of software programs at a retail store for $39.95 and up. Then you install the program on your Windows machine and sometimes there is a version for your Mac machine.

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

There’s no iPhone, no iPad. There’s no iPod, no iTunes, no Android.

There’s a Windows tablet with a stylus, selling as many as they did 5 years ago. Walkmans are still popular.  Netbooks are the big rage. For phones Blackberry is still king, but Palm has a growing following and many of us are invested in it.

We have no clue what we missed.

We would still have mp3 players. They wouldn’t be as elegant, but we would have them.

As for phones, Google was already working on Rim like Android.

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

...Ah, if that is so… There is no Apple today. It went bankrupt in 1998.

Roman - 30 January 2012 01:01 AM

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

...Ah, if that is so… There is no Apple today. It went bankrupt in 1998.

It was a mercy killing. They had to give all the money back to the stockholders per the Oracle of Dellphi. AFB does not even exist.

2 Cents - 30 January 2012 05:32 PM

Roman - 30 January 2012 01:01 AM

2 Cents - 29 January 2012 05:48 PM

Steve Jobs never returned to Apple.

...Ah, if that is so… There is no Apple today. It went bankrupt in 1998.

It was a mercy killing. They had to give all the money back to the stockholders per the Oracle of Dellphi. AFB does not even exist.

which means a part of me does not exist. 

Oh boy, I feel some classic science fiction meme coming on…..

Check out “Fringe”

In this world, 15% net profit margin is absolutely staggering amongst tech hardware manufacturers.  25% gross margins?  That was back in Apple’s day, when it was still a going concern.

Mav - 30 January 2012 06:40 PM

In this world, 15% net profit margin is absolutely staggering amongst tech hardware manufacturers.  25% gross margins?  That was back in Apple’s day, when it was still a going concern.

Absolutely, that can’t happen today. There are too many world-class manufacturers who can and will reproduce any product in quantity, driving margins down to zero. And consumers have so much more price information that they can and will take advantage of it. It was the end of an era.

Damn shame all the smartphones and PCs and tablets are so beige or grayish-black and flimsy.  I guess the race to the bottom has its consequences…

Hold the phone.  My smartphone case just popped open again.  No, not that case, the actual enclosure that holds the battery and stuff.

And this power cord on my tablet keeps getting tangled up with my mouse cord.

Beat this - I just tripped over my laptop power cord again!  And the entire laptop came down with it!