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The 80/20 Rule and Apple

By moreApple, September 22, 2005

Here’s a quick one.  What’s really cool about economics is the 80/20 rule.  It came about when “economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of property in Italy was owned by 20% of the Italian population.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

I was going to write how it applies to Apple.  Then I read the full definition in an article from Wikipedia.

“Certain common applications of the principle misunderstand the original intent and are not, by themselves, credible. For instance: “20% of individuals in an organization perform 80% of the work.” Or: “20% of our advertising creates 80% of our increased sales.”

I misinterpreted the Pareto Principle and thus, I cannot say that perhaps 20% of Apple’s work is Ives or even Jobs.  Perhaps that 20% is Steve Jobs himself, perhaps not? 

Either way, with wise class, Steve Jobs has asked Apple developers from its latest gadgets to stand up at recent keynotes, including MWSF 2005 IIRC.  For breaking the 80/20 myth and sharing credit, I applaud Steve Jobs.

~Bryan


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Apple Expo: .mac gets additional storage, groups, new Backup

By Nick, September 19, 2005

Apple has announced three new features to their .mac web services suite:

.mac Groups: Apple’s following the lead of Google and Yahoo by starting their own “groups” for .mac members. Stay tuned for more information and the DT Fan Club! wink

Additional storage: iDisk and email storage space has been increased to a combined 1 gigabyte. Users may purchase an additional 1 GB of storage for an additional $50 per year.

Backup 3.0: Backup 3.0 includes a number of new features, including incremental backups, the ability to backup multiple Macs, and a number of new presets for iLife apps, among other new features.


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When Zealots Attack

By Pilky, September 17, 2005

"Microsoft sucks, Windows sucks, Win Zealots should go to hell, Apple rules, all hail Steve Jobs"

What’s more amusing than a Mac Zealot? A Windows Zealot trying to call a Mac Zealot a fanatic and trying to sound like an average user. And vice versa. The blog post over at wincustomize.com isn’t really as interesting as the comments that follow it. There are several Windows Zealots that seem to be following the same format:

“Apple sucks, Macs suck, Mac Zealots should go to hell, Microsoft rules, all hail Bill Gates”

Now this would be kind of shocking if it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve seen it so many times in this format:

“Microsoft sucks, Windows sucks, Win Zealots should go to hell, Apple rules, all hail Steve Jobs”

But there is a very big problem. Mac Zealots seem to get pointed out a lot more than Windows Zealots. They both act the same so why don’t they both get treated the same? There are many times when a normal user may say “The other OS is good but...”, and say why they don’t like it as much as their preferred OS. After which a zealot comes and rip the poor soul to pieces.

For example, I personally think that Windows Vista will be good and I am considering buy a PC (or an Intel Mac) to play with it. Now I’m not abandoning the Mac, I’m just curious as to what’s been taking Microsoft so long. But while I think Vista will be good I don’t think that it’ll be quite as revolutionary as I first…
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Addendum. . .

By Clay, September 15, 2005

Apple, in the short time that it had been developing for Intel hardware, could do something that Microsoft has been unable to do in 15 years of pinching links of goodness that we like to call Operating Systems.

Oh, and here’s another thing.  Having played around with my Mac Dev Box, I have gotten a DVD that will install OS X on a commodity PC.  Lucky me.  Anyway, there was really only one reason I was interested in doing this, ad that was to see if Apple, in the short time that it had been developing for Intel hardware, could do something that Microsoft has been unable to do in 15 years of pinching links of goodness that we like to call Operating Systems.  Guess what. . . They have.  Oh yes, Apple, in their inferiority to the Redmond Monster, has made an operating system that will not only boot, but run with relative stability on computers with wildly different hardware configurations.  So far, 4 Dells, 2 Compaqs, and HP. Toshiba, Sony and Samsung Laptops, not to mention four custom boxes, running on all processors, from the Celeron M, to the Pentium D, have all been able to boot up my OS X86 and run it with absolutely no software changes.  Try that with your average Windows install.


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First on DT: Apple quietly kills single-button mouse

By Nick, September 15, 2005

As a sign that Apple may be moving toward a multi-button future, Apple has quietly discontinued selling the single-button Apple Mouse as a standalone product. In other words, if you are a devotee of the single button mouse and you need to repolace your single-button buddy, you will be out of luck.

Macintoshes continue to ship with single-button mice. The single-button bluetooth mouse is also still available.

It is a sad day for single-button devotees.


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