🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi everyone.

This is my "anniversary" post since about 1 year ago, I posted an
article pointing out that Mr. Job's announcement of a public stock
offering was really an attempt to raise the value of the stock so that
those with a vested interest could unload all their (eventually
worthless) stock.  I also pointed out that if Mr. Jobs were smart,
he would switch the central processor in upcoming Next machines to
a SPARC chip and would switch manufacturing facilities to someplace
like Thailand.  (By "smart", I mean, "wanting a company that is
profitable.)

Well, I was laughed off this place.  True, I did err about the stock
announcement; Mr. Jobs did announce that the company _would_ go public
but _had_ not yet gone public at the time.  (I erroneously thought that
he had already gone public.)  Several people pointed out--huffy and puffy
--that Next was doing fabulously well and should not switch to a SPARC
chip and that moving manufacturing facilities to Thailand wouldn't
help a bit.

Think again.

I just read the status of Next, Inc. in the latest issue of the
Economist.  The line in the 1st paragraph reads, approximately,

         "Next, Inc. has yet to turn a profit".

At the end of the article, it notes that a high-ranked official had
jumped ship and moved to Sun Microsystems.  Mr. Job laments that
Sun may yet crush the daylights out of his company.

So, if Mr. Jobs is reading this, I wish him well and again offer the same
advice.  Keep R & D in the USA but move _all_ manufacturing facilities
to Thailand.  For crying out loud, use the Matsushita-designed 64-bit
SPARC chip.  So, what do you care if people laugh because you chose
the SPARC chip?  You will earn enough money to _burn_.

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