Beatles Sue Apple!

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 3:55 am

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97064,00.html

Arf arf. Daft Apple types!

Did they think Apple Corps (The Beatles' company) would simply forget? Or not care?

Steve Job's ass is grass

Royston

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:36 pm

Apple Computers... How can they keep making such stupid mistakes? I hardly think they can afford it.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:54 am

On 2003-09-12 04:55, Counterparts wrote:
Did they think Apple Corps (The Beatles' company) would simply forget? Or not care?

Steve Job's ass is grass

It's funny that Mac users rather don't complain the Aplle's founder while all people dislike Bill Gates

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:21 am

On 2003-09-15 08:54, samplaire wrote:

It's funny that Mac users rather don't complain the Aplle's founder while all people dislike Bill Gates

Well...at least Apple/Jobs has been responsible for some true innovation in the I.T. industry (not something that could ever be said for Miscrosoft). The flip side of that however is that Apple have made some...shall we say...bold market moves! The way that M$ have also used their financial/market-place muscle is also very well publicised of course (not that it's stopped them continuing this behaviour...)

Apple (computers) MUST have known that Apple Corps would sue their ass, though...it's happened twice before already and for somewhat less obvious reasons (e.g. introducing desktop speakers!)

Perhaps Apple built the likely $$$,$$$,$$$ lawsuit into their business plan and went ahead anyway?

Royston

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:51 am

consider it as a world wide advertising campaign

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:05 am

On 2003-09-15 09:51, astroman wrote:
consider it as a world wide advertising campaign

Any publicity is good publicity?

Good point - I forgot that old chestnut!

Royston

p.s. the old War song "Let's be friends" just came into my head...they did some fine tunes.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:30 am

What happened to the Newton? Palm Pilots caught on. Why did Apple allow clones and then kill them? This is not a well run company and furthermore there is little difference in performance over the pc and the cost of an Apple I would imagine is hundreds more over a similar PC, but certain musicians and artists swear by them. I figure they think they are making a fashion statement. Personally I thought the colors (or flavors as Apple called them) were hideous to look at but it seemed to give them a bump in sales... go figure.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 12:15 pm

On 2003-09-15 08:54, samplaire wrote:
It's funny that Mac users rather don't complain the Aplle's founder while all people dislike Bill Gates

yeah,but they should.the two guys are partners in crime.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:20 pm

Jobs/Wozniak team - they started as hackers in the late 70s

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:46 pm

On 2003-09-15 10:05, Counterparts wrote:
Any publicity is good publicity?

yeah, a great opportunity - mentioned in any news worldwide in relation to music and the Beatles - what was that iPod thingy about ?

in the link above a dude from the Beatle's company mentioned 50 million they already got from Apple.
Not bad but M$ once spent about 150 million a week on TV ads in the US alone.
A fact commented by some university guy as '... I know companies who'd be willing to write 3 complete OSes given that budget...'

anyway I agree with GaryB's statement and the issue itself is a firm proof that those companies are considering anything, but us customer's benefits.

cheers, Tom

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:17 pm

On 2003-09-15 11:30, braincell wrote:
What happened to the Newton? Palm Pilots caught on.

they concentrated ob core business

Why did Apple allow clones and then kill them?

Simplified: because the clonemakers didn't develope their own business (as originally in(pre)tended), but just copied Apple's high end machines for lower prices. Apple spent about one third of it's income in those days on developement.

This is not a well run company...

if it wasn't they'd be out of business for quite some time

furthermore there is little difference in performance over the pc and the cost of an Apple I would imagine is hundreds more over a similar PC, but certain musicians and artists swear by them. I figure they think they are making a fashion statement.

That's not a fashion statement but a matter of reliability and related to being a non techie customer.

Unfortunately Apple changed this with their Unix approach because they noticed their own (original) way would keep customers satisfied for too long periods.
Cash flow would simply dry out.
I still do software documentation or office stuff on a 80 MHZ Mac and it outperforms any M$ crap. The software is > 10 years old, RagTime 3 in case you're interested.
It does exactly what all the 'Office' users install their 200 MByte piles of crap for and fits on 2 1.4 MB diskettes.
No system extensions and .dlls needed and it runs from OS6 to 9 - in other words on my 16 MHZ 68k MacPortable as well as on a G4 dual 1 Gig, without a single patch

It should be clear that a multi billion $ company cannot afford such behaviour

cheers, tom

Post by **hubird** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:52 pm

On 2003-09-15 11:30, braincell wrote:
I figure they think they are making a fashion statement.

no.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:55 am

You could also Use DOS without any problems.

Post by **hubird** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:48 am

DOS WAS a problem

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:02 am

"DOS were the days"

Post by **hubird** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:03 am

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:59 am

On 2003-09-16 09:48, hubird wrote:
DOS WAS a problem

Why the past tense? Guess which platform I'm developing for atm...

The Horror...The Horror...

Royston