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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, January 29, 2004Oh, the irony (Part two)In other case of misappropriated ideas, Sean Foley of macwriter.net has come around to the notion that Apple's comparison to BMW is completely baseless. As I've noted numerous times in the past, BMW, unlike Apple, doesn't compete in a market with just one dominant player. Instead, BMW competes in a market with dozens of other car models, none of which hold a dominant position. "The analogy just doesn't hold up," Foley writes. "A car and a computer are both tools, you could even say that they both take you places, I suppose. But that's about where their similarities end. A car is good for two things - to drive or to look at. No matter how much you accessorize it, it boils down to transportation and aesthetics. A computer, however, is a tool with an infinite number of uses ... It's nice to say that the Mac is the BMW of the computer world. Aesthetically (if you like Beemers), it rings true enough. I like the sound of it. But future BMW sales aren't threatened by a potential decision by JBL to stop manufacturing CD disk changers that would work in their cars." [ Posted at 10:58 AM | Permalink ]
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