You're missing the point.

Post #13,421 by addison 10/15/01 5:05:16 PM Reply	You're missing the point. I mean, I may be full of crap here, but this doesn't sound like a terribly hard thing for Apple to implement and it would play to the respective strengths of each vendor. Apple pulls in the new customers, the customers get to know a local expert and the resellers don't get kicked in the ss quite so much. That's missing the point. Consider Apple to be a dysfunctional partner. They do everything that I can see is possible to slap partners in the face. I think it might be partially the cult of personality around Jobs, that you are to deify Him and Worship Him... except it existed (not as badly) when he wasn't around. These days, Apple exists to burn bridges, and shoot people trying to rebuild them. I can't belive anybody* bothers with them anymore. I can tell you the stories - similar to what you heard - about educational resellers. Who lost almost all the money they were making, back to Apple, for continual changes in certifications and such. Every 6 months, it changed. Who finally gave up, went to the Intel world - and took schools with them. Whether Apple would do something like this is another story, but it sounds like a decent idea to me. (Remember, I don't know much about this stuff.) One name for you: Steve Jobs. Any more questions? :) Addison
Post #13,475 by tjsinclair 10/15/01 11:30:52 PM Reply	Well, I was just putting it out there... Too bad this isn't a sane and sensible world after all. Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits
Post #14,486 by orion 10/21/01 9:36:32 PM Reply	Getting burned by Apple Well someone told me that they bought an Apple Reseller from the former owner because the former owner was going through a divorce. Apple said that they would have to wait six months to get a new reseller's license and that it cannot be transfered. So in that six months they could not service their existing customers. Since it was an All-Apple shop that was 100% of their income. Guess why they turned into a PC-Shop? But Apple is seen as the "only" alternative to an All-MS PC Solution for some reason. Some people forget that there are other alternatives, but they keep going back to Apple. Sort of a "Cocacola burned me, so I'll only carry Pepsi" but ignoring RC, and other brands. Then Pepsi burns them, but they remember that Cocacola burned them first, so they stick with Pepsi as it is the lesser of two evils. Apple is the lesser of two evils. We need a better alternative. *Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*
Post #14,518 by tjsinclair 10/22/01 2:13:29 AM Reply	Isn't Linux a valid alternative yet? Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits
Post #14,711 by orion 10/22/01 11:10:42 PM Reply	It should be a viable altenative just that its ability to run the latest Microsoft Bloatware is a deciding factor. Got to get WINE up to snuff and run Office XP, or Office XYZ, or whatever. :) *Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*
Post #14,726 by pwhysall 10/23/01 2:04:09 AM Reply	Bugger that www.openoffice.org Have a nice, Microsoft-free, life :) (And still read and write .DOC and .XLS) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #14,865 by orion 10/23/01 10:01:42 PM Reply	The next step Is to bundle Linux and OpenOffice on new consumer electronic computer systems. Like the type they sell in the stores that also sell consumer electronics. Once Joe Sixpack uses it at home and in the office, you got a winner! *Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*

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