Saturday, January 14, 2006
Intel based Macs II
Reading Paul Graham's essay: How to Make Wealth (actually I read it before but just now made a connection to my previous post), I think Apple will introduce wealth(and not just all about money) if they re-open their Mac architecture so that customers can buy Apple based systems like PC based systems. With Apple using Intel CPUs, now it seems PCs and Apple will run hand in hand. Apple already uses the same ATI and Nvidia graphics accelerators that PCs have been using for years. Count that also to IDE and now SATA based hard drives including optical drives, so hardware wise there is really no difference.
But back to the wealth issue, does Apple really want to create more wealth and also make more money? I think they won't. The answer boils down to individuality. First of all Apple took a lot of time and effort to create wealth by introducing their own brand of computers. It's their cash cow. Yeah the computers are based on off the shelf parts but imagine if you created wealth introducing a new product that wazzled and dazzled the crowd on a new and different way of doing things, wouldn't you want to keep it to yourself and reap all the profits?
Ah anyway, I'm getting tired and sleepy. Half blogging and half watching Hong Kong movies: "Dragon Forever" and "Yes Madam!".
But back to the wealth issue, does Apple really want to create more wealth and also make more money? I think they won't. The answer boils down to individuality. First of all Apple took a lot of time and effort to create wealth by introducing their own brand of computers. It's their cash cow. Yeah the computers are based on off the shelf parts but imagine if you created wealth introducing a new product that wazzled and dazzled the crowd on a new and different way of doing things, wouldn't you want to keep it to yourself and reap all the profits?
Ah anyway, I'm getting tired and sleepy. Half blogging and half watching Hong Kong movies: "Dragon Forever" and "Yes Madam!".
# posted by kfcblog @ 4:07 PM 
