[ale] Apple

[Geoffrey Myers]

Rich Faulkner wrote:
> Speaking of Apple.....this was worth a "chuckle"...
> 
> ...on my way to work today I saw a slick lookin' 4-door Nissan p/u truck 
> with a "I Don't Believe the Liberal Media!" sticker, a "Don't Tread On 
> Me" sticker and a NRA member sticker.  Oh, yeah, and an APPLE STICKER 
> RIGHT NEXT TO THE NRA STICKER!!!

Sounds like my truck.

> 
> Sheeple, by any other name....He definitely needs someone to introduce 
> him to Linux.
> 
> ...and for the record I humbly submit that I am not a fan of Steve Jobs 
> or Apple.  It's all just technology designed to do a job....
> 
> Rich in Lilburn (happily driving Ubuntu 11.04 w/Gnome2)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 10:00 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
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>> On 10/5/11 9:54 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > Check the news. Steve Jobs died. I doubt it was due to the new
>> > iphone being panned by the critics. I've never been an apple fanboy
>> > but a product visionary died too young at 56.
>>
>>
>> I also look at him as a business visionary, simply because he realized
>> that he didn't need to be paid millions of dollars if he ran the
>> company correctly, that the real value (as opposed to fake value
>> through mass purchases and acquisitions) he brought to the company
>> would translate itself to value in ownership of the company.  This is
>> something many, many, many boards and potential CEOs forget, if they
>> ever learn it.
>>
>> People don't feel forced to use Apple stuff.  They choose to use it.
>> People don't choose to use Oracle stuff, they are often forced to.
>>
>> Hey, Oracle shareholders, think on that.
>>
>> Hey, HP shareholders, think...oh, wait, y'all have no semblance of
>> thinking left.
>>
>> bnm
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Until later, Geoffrey

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