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Listed below are comments made by jonathan_ash between Thursday, 22nd January 2009 and Thursday, 22nd January 2009.

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Is Apple recession proof? 9:03pm on 22 Jan 2009 Of course they single-handedly created the iPod market, just like Microsoft single-handedly created the Zune market, its their product, so they're the only ones going to be creating the market for it.

However if your talking about the DAP (digital audio player) market, then the iPod is just an advance from the cd player or the cassette player, which Sony started. And Compaq created the first hard drive based mp3 player four years before the iPod. Apple were simply quicker off the mark than their competitors. I'm quite sure a lot of people predicted the move to hard drive based music players.
Is Apple recession proof? 5:19pm on 22 Jan 2009 @ascylto...Glad your keeping your quotes up to date, i think that ones about 24 years old? But in the line of old quotes heres a nice one from Steve Jobs for you;

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."

And to add Macs can get viruses, just like Windows and any Linux distro, Windows viruses are more prolific because theres more machines running Windows in the world. People who write viruses want information or to cause distruption to computer users and the best way to do that is to target the biggest audience.

Saying that Windows is less safe is like saying that Fords are more dangerous than Ferraris because there are more Fords involved in accidents. The only reason thats its true is because theres more of them.

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