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In article <ted.oliver-1801960833430001@129.219.116.52>,
ted.oliver@asu.edu (Ted Oliver) wrote:

> In article <ted.oliver-1801960811280001@129.219.116.52>,
> ted.oliver@asu.edu (Ted Oliver) wrote:
> 
> >In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960117223321.19626A-100000@howard>, Patrick
> >O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Jim Derr wrote:
> >>
> >>On a related tack, I find it amusing that since Intel has recently seen 
> >>some similar financial problems, Apple-philes in particular are 
> >>predicting Intel's demise.  So, Apple has financial problems and has to 
> >>downsize and drop out of certain markets and it is perfectly OK, no prob 
> >>(those layed off will disagree) but the same for Intel?  NO WAY!  Their 
> >>DYING!  See? They're laying people off, the bastards.
> >>
> >>Geesh.
> >
> >I see far more people from the wintel side of the tracks predicting
> >apple's demise than I have seen apple-philes predicting Intel's demise. 
> >Of course, there *are* far more people on the wintel side of the tracks
> >:-).  But to predict either company's demise based on a single quarter of
> >less-than-expected profitability seems a little premature.
> 
> Okay - when I wrote this I hadn't seen Chip Rondot's gazillion posts in
> this and comp.sys.intel. Why is it so many advocacy-types go so far over
> the line to mangle any credibility they might have?

I don't know about you, but I thought the "Intel is going down the tubes"
post was someone's idea of a joke. Did anyone really take it seriously?

The intent (I believe--I wasn't involved) was to show the stupidity of the
idea that Apple was going to die just because of a bad quarter.

-- 
Regards,       Joe Ragosta

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