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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 02:54 AM Original message |
Apple: Here's to the crazy ones. |
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Jim Warren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. A $600 phone |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 04:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. The iPod changed the music industry, |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. The mp3 changed the industry, not the ipod. Back in 1997, 4 years before the first ipod... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. no -- the ipod monopolized an industry |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 05:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. The original cell phone was over $10,000 |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. It sure is. |
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Occupied1 (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. here's to the crazy ones who think COMMERCIALS are spiritual messages |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 04:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's good writing, and at the time Apple was tiny player |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Tiny player? In 1997? |
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belcffub (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. you do know that it was around this time |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. You do know that you can be a large company and still be in trouble |
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belcffub (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 07:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. tiny player and tiny company are two different things |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Pretty much. They were on the verge of going under when Jobs stepped in |
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Occupied1 (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. They had $7 billion in revenue in 1997. And Microsoft (of the sludgey beige)loaned them $15 million. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. it's an ADVERTISEMENT. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Exactly. Bob Dylan told 60 Minutes, "Look, I'm not a messiah, I'm a songwriter." |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
11. LOL at consumers of pricey tech gadgets |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 07:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. 1997 - MS was wiping Netscape. |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 07:48 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. The kids on OWS are rebels |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 07:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. In 1997 I was lobbying for Highly Active Antiretroviral therapy treatments |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:01 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yeah, yeah , on behalf of Australia |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Eternally grateful? |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
19. Great thread. |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:10 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Is 'Major Hogwash' |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. As canetoads are famous for bufotoxin venom, |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Well, let me tell ya . . . |
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Occupied1 (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. That's hogwash, Hogwash. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. With all things in life there is great complexity. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:35 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yes, but don't you see farther out in the spectrum of life itself, death is not an ending. |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:16 AM Response to Original message |
23. Apple.. such rebels |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
29. Unrecced. This revisionism is getting insane. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. Yes but can those people afford the tools? I sure can't. n/t |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
33. Nice post, that it is in negative rec territory is kind of funny. |
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