Monday, September 26, 2005

Today I learned about a couple more loyal Apple employees being shown the door. As has become the custom at Apple, how you do your job isn't really what matters. What is of key importance is telling people what they want to hear. That's really a sad commentary on the corporate culture. It's been going on for several years at Apple, and of course it happens at other companies, but Apple seems to be especially adept at creating an environment where only good news reaches the inner circle. If you get on the wrong side of some of Apple's powerful folks, your time at Apple will be limited no matter how well you do your job. Of course that happens everywhere. Now there's lots of good news on iPods, but I can't imagine the news in the server world is very good. I would assume Apple did well in cpu sales during back to school, but I'm willing to bet that aside from iPod sales growing, that Apple's federal market has grown only minimally this year. I know that they have lost one big opportunity and I certainly haven't heard of any new successes in federal. Limited success in federal for Apple could come from sales of Xraids. Yet I would doubt that the Xraids would make up for the normal end of year burst of high end cpu sales that Apple typically got from their federal research customers. I doubt that happened this year since there were no new high end Apple systems for the federal year end. 4:30:48 PM    comment []

This was actually written August 16 and was another e-mail post that didn't work. ______________________________________________________________ It's been a while since I've wandered over to my Radio Weblog, but I'm finding more and more that keeping multiple sites up just to check on the technologies may be more than one person can accomplish. Since I wrote the last post we have been through a lot of heat and are on track to have one of our hottest August's ever. Our hillside got a great rain last week, but with the temperature in the nineties every day, we need more than one rain storm to keep things growing. The skies are rumbling now so maybe we will get something. We got home late last night from a quick visit to North Carolina and our youngest daughter. Our dinner was in an interesting little place in Cornelius, NC. I will likely write a post about it on View from the mountain when I get time. 10:17:55 AM    comment []