Based on earnings reports released yesterday, Apple's officially a bigger company than IBM. Really, we already knew that... what we get from these reports is confirmation that Big Blue is slowly slipping behind the pack. It's amazing that 25 years ago, the personal computing marketing wars pitted the Apple II versus the IBM PC... how things have changed. What never changed was how IBM always used old imagery for new technology... I mean, Charlie Chaplin hawking a computer? That would get some ad exec fired these days...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Apple surpasses IBM
Based on earnings reports released yesterday, Apple's officially a bigger company than IBM. Really, we already knew that... what we get from these reports is confirmation that Big Blue is slowly slipping behind the pack. It's amazing that 25 years ago, the personal computing marketing wars pitted the Apple II versus the IBM PC... how things have changed. What never changed was how IBM always used old imagery for new technology... I mean, Charlie Chaplin hawking a computer? That would get some ad exec fired these days...
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