Apple's High End Dilemma: Give Us Six Slots!

It’s hard to criticize Apple this quarter. Apple is doing unexpectedly well, and PC juggernauts like Compaq are doing unexpectedly bad. But here goes. The problem is Apple’s hardware commitment to high end users who need six (or more) slot machines, serial ports, and built-in SCSI. It was brought into sharp focus by last week’s…

AppleCORE: Mac vs. Windows In The Ivy League

AppleCORE Archive SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1997 AppleCORE MIKE LAMBERT ([email protected]) Mac vs. Windows In The Ivy League Since its inception, Apple Computer has cultivated and maintained a stronghold in both the graphic communications and education markets, and the company’s current leaders have made it clear (especially during the past few months of strategic change and upheaval)…

AppleCORE: A Very Connected Future for the Mac?

AppleCORE Archive OCTOBER 6th, 1997 AppleCORE MIKE LAMBERT ([email protected]) A Very Connected Future for the Mac? "Trust me for a few months," Steve Jobs told attendees during his keynote speech at the Seybold San Francisco conference last week . If I had heard him say that a month, or even a couple weeks ago, I…