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| Posted on 09-Aug-2004 09:49 GMT by Anonymous | 27 comments
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If computers were made by car manufacturers, who would be making the Amiga, Pegasos and PC respectfully?
Is the PC a Lada or one of those Soviet cars? ;)
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 10-Aug-2004 21:11 GMT | Hmm. Okay, to throw my spare change in, I've always thought of the Amiga 'concept' as somehow correlating to Subaru - lightweight, 'different,' based on proven tech, and 'gadgety' without compromising usability. In contrast, Microsoft is the looming GM (or perhaps Ford, given the attempt at consolidation), most UNIX and Linux vendors still run their businesses as if they were making military/commercial contract vehicles, and Apple presently has similarity to the modern Volkswagen -- expensive, functional-but-fiddly designs sold based on the *association* with forgotten simplicity. (That one's apropos, really -- we've seen both companies have to go liquid-cooled.)
If we have to drag Genesi into it, I'll be charitable with the analogy and call the Pegasos a Lancer -- pretty much an even match, probably quite decent or better in aspects when looked at objectively, but backed by a company that but makes what might be odd decisions, and has varying devotion to "the art of rallying," whatever that means here. (KMOSAInc is, for better or worse, focused on the one or two things... Much as Subie's health is dependent on consumer demand for 'things you could probably win a rally with, if nothing else' -- and of course, call the tangled mess of DE a research project along the lines of the hybrids and Smart-alikes the five-star company's been playing with. Genesi, meanwhile, wants to be a big, diversified company... but the strategic moves of the past dozen months resemble what's left the triple-diamond camp in the red.) In any case, you'll find people who love one more than the other at the end of the day, even if they target the same 'niche.'
I'd lean towards calling PCs 'American' in respects, as Intel and AMD are the ones calling the shots... and their marketing departments are made up of the same people who come up with things like the Excursion and Pontiac Vibe. I suppose you could argue that Sony's overall strategy fills the Toyota/Honda/Lexus/Acura niche as regards something excruciatingly 'Japanese,' since while they're happy to do what it takes to penetrate markets (selling products based on MS and Intel, in some way similar to the way those players set up factories over here to claim N% American content), that's only a step in their plan for a Playstation in every home (and Sony will still do what they can to keep MS from gaining ground, much as certain Japanese makes will do what they can to avoid unionization imposing outside influence on their plans).
Meanwhile, sports-car and Bentley analogies will be reserved for the world of consoles, 20-fan game boxes, and various forms of 'workstation'/supercomputing... though something like Red Storm is more of a B-52 than anything else. ;) [You have to be in the four to eight CPU category to equal the markup and 'perqs' you get with a V12, right?] |
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