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Saturday, June 25, 2005

The 2005 Internet

Brad Feld provides an overview of what has happened and the challenges ahead, and concludes:

In 1995 at a Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) national conference, I gave a talk on the Internet. When I asked the question, "How many of you have email?" only about five people in the standing-room-only gathering of 200 raised their hands. If I asked the question again today, I’d bet there’d be only five people who didn’t raise their hands. But if I asked the question, "How many of you continue to be mystified and frustrated by your computer because it doesn’t do enough for you, is too hard to use, and continues to get more complex as it gets embedded in your every day work life?" I’d expect most of the hands would stay up. We’ve made a lot of progress in the past 20 years, getting technology in general-and the Internet, in particular-to work for entrepreneurs. However, we’ve got a long way to go. Stay tuned for an even more exciting time ahead.

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Intel, Apple and Microsoft

Bob Cringely has some unique thinking about Apple's decision to use Intel chips going ahead:

What is the driving force?

Microsoft.

Microsoft comes into this because Intel hates Microsoft. It hasn't always been that way, but in recent years Microsoft has abused its relationship with Intel and used AMD as a cudgel against Intel. Even worse, from Intel's standpoint Microsoft doesn't work hard enough to challenge its hardware. For Intel to keep growing, people have to replace their PCs more often and Microsoft's bloatware strategy just isn't making that happen, especially if they keep delaying Longhorn.

Enter Apple. This isn't a story about Intel gaining another three percent market share at the expense of IBM, it is about Intel taking back control of the desktop from Microsoft.

Intel is fed up with Microsoft. Microsoft has no innovation that drives what Intel must have, which is a use for more processing power. And when they did have one with the Xbox, they went elsewhere.

So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market. The OEMs would love to be able to offer a higher margin product with better reliability than Microsoft. Intel/Apple enters the market just as Microsoft announces yet another delay in their next generation OS. By the way, the new Apple OS for the Intel Architecture has a compatibility mode with Windows (I'm just guessing on this one).

This scenario works well for everyone except Microsoft. If Intel was able to own the Mac OS and make it available to all the OEMs, it could break the back of Microsoft. And if they tuned the OS to take advantage of unique features that only Intel had, they would put AMD back in the box, too. Apple could return Intel to its traditional role of being where all the value was in the PC world. And Apple/Intel could easily extend this to the consumer electronics world.

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i agree, there is potential for something amazing... but i doubt Intel will kill its Wintel cash so easily...

my comments also @

Posted by Suresh Kumar

For those who would like additional info, a recent article:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1146

Subject:
Versions of Apple's $999 Intel-based Developer Transition Kit began arriving on the doorsteps of several Mac OS X developers earlier this week, offering the first material evidence that the company will adopt the two-way serial interface known as PCI-Express in future Macs.

Interesting info:
Sources so far have reported absolutely no luck in their attempts to boot the included copy of Mac OS X for Intel on other PC systems. In their attempts to do so, they have reportedly been met by error messages stating that the PC hardware configurations are not supported by Darwin -- the underlying UNIX-based foundation to Mac OS X.

To put it in simple words:
In the future, if you own a PC you can only run Windows or Linux on it, if you own an Apple/Intel, a MacTel as they are already called, you can run OSX, Windows and Linux, all in real time (no more emulations) on one very modern very fast machine.

Posted by Hugo van Rhijn

The decision has more than just a tie-ups. Agreed. Intel hates Microsoft. The business logic is more complex of this deal. 3 days before, I was talking to the Agency head which handles Intel in chennai, he came out with interesting points on why Intel desparately wanted to work with Apple ? and why Apple needs to move with Intel.

For Apple, the reasons are plenty. a. It wants to regain the ground it lost to Microsoft in the Desktop war b. It's longtime partner IBM/Motorola is unable to deliver the chips running G5 on Powerbooks c. Apple is eyeing the upcoming digital lifestyle product and now supports high-end formats like HD & H.263 codecs in its new Quicktime 7 and bringing similar features & powers to desktop requires enormous energy, which Apple found in Intel d. Intel already has worldwide Genuine Intel Dealers & Premium Dealers program thru which it bundles Processors with PC & gadgets with them. Apple can leverage this distribution network with Intel.

For Intel, the reasons are plenty too. a. It hates Microsoft very much. Time and again, Microsoft only delivers a pathetic experience to worldwide computer users. Intel wants to work with Apple with a perfect operating system. b. the digital lifestyle segment is growing. Apple leads the industry with its iPods, iTunes, integrated Production suites and more. The future will be more visual unlike textual. [which Microsoft works with their Office suites & other. applications] c. Customers will get better human-computer experience with Apple than Microsoft. This will allow Intel to position themselves beyond speed,performance and actually enters into the integration of PC-human experience with Apple. d. with their adaptable processors [Thinksecret.com gives a message that the developer editions of Mac with Intel processor in, are also able to run Win. XP without much issues] it can give users the multiple benefits of operating systems & choices.

But, my gut feeling is can anyone come out with a user-friendly operating system like Tiger & distribution strength like Windows 98, it will then be the disruptive innovation for the future.

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Selling Innovation

Tom Evslin writes:

It is almost impossible to sell something which customers can’t use unless they change the way they do business. That’s a hard lesson for an innovator to swallow because the best use of innovative products is to change the way business is done. The more you tell your prospect that your product is revolutionary, the more nervous he’ll get. Besides, it may not matter to him that what’s inside your product is revolutionary; he doesn’t want to buy a revolution. He wants something that’ll make his business work better.

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