Apple vs. Microsoft
Graham: If Apple grows the iPod into a cell phone with web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble; http://j.mp/cjU4kD
Graham: If Apple grows the iPod into a cell phone with web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble; http://j.mp/cjU4kD
Gerrit Eicker 06:57 on 16. July 2010 Permalink |
Thanks for the hint at @pfandtasse!
Oddhead: “Back in 2004, who could have imagined Apple’s astonishing rise to overtake Microsoft as the most valuable tech company in the world? – At least one person. – Paul Graham wins the award for the most prescient parenthetical statement inside a footnote ever.”
Graham‘s footnote (14) in Hackers and Painters, 2004: “If the Mac was so great, why did it lose? Cost, again. Microsoft concentrated on the software business and unleashed a swarm of cheap component suppliers on Apple hardware. It did not help, either, that suits took over during a critical period. (And it hasn’t lost yet. If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.)”