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Great article in Ars Technica
Love the Michael Dell quote...
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/14/ten-years-after-apple-was-doomed
Ars said:Predicting the future is hard work, and probably best avoided as an off-the-cuff remark on how to save Apple in 1997.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.
A decade after Michael Dell won his race to the bottom selling PCs—only to find razor-thin margins cut both ways—Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank selling high-priced, high-margin computers, music players, and phones. While Apple fans partake in a little shameful joy, it's interesting to consider the last ten years and contemplate the next decade.
Love the Michael Dell quote...
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/14/ten-years-after-apple-was-doomed