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but consider the following - apple has been lossing millions for the past how many quarters now? they've lost market share to Linux (!!! an OS where people still struggle to find fucking drivers for their printers) - something like 5% vs 3% w guess who owning the remailing 92%. apple also decided to charge for upgrades for all their iApps now and the reason they gave was a lack of enough 'switches' that they had been counting on. Nobody - corporations, educational institutions, regular folk - has been /is/will be spending shit on IT upgrades for a while....
I'd love to think that apple was in shittier waters w Gilbert Emilio but that was the mid-90s during the beginning of a tech boom where apple's problem was more lack of vision than anything else.
to quote any random CNBC head, 'fundamentals just arent there'. so what if apple has the bitchin profile now w their 1700 ft screen laptop or their iPod is the bomb. if no one is buying, what difference does it make? And Ive already seen adds for ipod-like mp3 player-info manager portables that are at least $100 cheaper. As far as FCP goes, there are plenty of decent inexpensive DV editors for the PC, pretty much all things adobe and macromedia are ported to windows...cash reserves or no, this is going to be a hard hard year for Apple unless something miraculous happens. Hey I love macs too but facts iz facts.