Parity Violation

Sigh, I realize I haven’t posted in many years. I blame facebook. And maybe twitter. Or perhaps I never thoughts that require more than a few sentences to articulate. Anyway, I am alive, I assure you. I just seem to have less things to post about. So, since my last post was a random Daily show clip – so shall this one be. Beware, my friends, “Potato Day” means the end of freedom:

It didn’t take lot for Fox to lose it.

Dell Trails Its Rivals in the Worst of Times – NYTimes.com.

It’d be easy, to oh, you know suggest they shut down and return the money to their shareholders like Mr. Dell suggested Apple do 11 years ago. But I won’t go that far. After all Dell has thousands of employees, and is a Texas company – so I hope the company can do well again.

I always thought Michael Dell’s statement about Apple just showed him to very obtuse – Dell was and is and always will be just another maker of PCs. He can differentiate with price, support, and maybe a little with design. Apple, was and is for whatever reason, one of the trail blazers of the consumer tech world.

If Apple had shut down 11 years ago, think of all the things we’d have missed. OS X, the iPod, the iPhone. What exactly would the universe be missing if Dell Computer had just disappeared instead?

Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld; no Jobs keynote..

My guess is that Apple is tired of the forced schedule of having to have something to talk about every January… and right after the holiday shopping season. Without Macworld, they can announce new products and make other announcements on their own timetable, rather than always in January.

Still, the Macworld keynote has always been a mainstay of Apple watchers since Jobs returned to Apple. And without Jobs this year, surely various talking heads will make all kinds of interpretations as to what this means for him, his health, the future of Apple, etc, etc.