Hard(er) Times at Apple
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-18 14:15:04 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-18 14:15:04 UTC
WE DON'T typically write about Apple, but this quick post is intended to point out that the company which occasionally attacks Free software [
1,
2] (sometimes with patents [
1,
2]) is far from omnipotent. It's
feeling the pinch and getting the lynch.
A recent article by the Wall Street Journal said that even Apple is beginning to suffer in this year's dismal holiday season, as if it expected the outfit to be immune to the woes of the economy.
IDG
covered this too and the BBC wrote about
Apple's "ditching" of Macworld, which
even Steve Jobs won't attend this time around.
Is 2009 going to mark the end of Macworld Expo? Apple has turned its back on the annual pilgrimage: Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote in January, and it'll be the last time the company exhibits.
On their way are more
technical problems as well.
OSX upgrade crashes Macs
APPLE which bases mucho of its marketing on the fact that its rivals crash a lot, has just released an update for its Mac OS X that... er, crashes a lot.
There are good alternatives to
those who look for them.
The Mac is dead (again), pass the Cider
[...]
Recently one of the keepers of the Ubuntu software repositories said that Wine was working well enough to include with Ubuntu.
As the famous saying goes, "we live in interesting times." Microsoft
suffers a lot too, so it
passes its burden to so-called 'pirates'. That is helping Free software.
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Comments
Tuomas
2008-12-20 06:15:31