Don't Trash Talk the Disposable Camera
By Robert Lachman
With the new 3G technology iPhone rumored to be out soon and the appications store soon to be open, history shows that it really doesn't pay to trash talk Steve Jobs and Apple.
Talking about how the the iPhone is second-rate to the Blackberry for businesses, Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of the BlackBerry, (RIM) Research In Motion, said during an interview for MacWorld UK, "You wouldn't walk up to a professional photographer and ask him to do his job with a throwaway camera."
I'm guessing he didn't remember or didn't research Michael Dells' comments about what he would do with troubled Apple in October of 1997, "What would I do? I'd shut it down (referring to Apple) and give the money back to the shareholders."
Steve Jobs answered, "We're coming after you, you're in our sights." Now, the market value of Apple has climbed over 2 times that of Dell computer. ______________________________________________________________________
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