Delicious Shortages
2:29 AM - December 18th, 2005
I’ll be honest: hearing about Microsoft’s troubles with the XBOX360 puts a big smile on my face. As a Microsoft-hater and Nintendo fanboy, I think it’s my right to smile at their troubles, even if I’m over 21 and supposedly an “adult.”
Microsoft’s inability to provide enough consoles is especially delicious. They never said the reason behind the shortage, right? No need really; I think every Mac user knows why. What? You don’t know? It’s IBM’s legendary inability to produce their high-end CPUs in significant quantities, of course.
Ah, the frustrations over PowerMac shortages are now delights over XBOX360 shortages. Really, are people still wondering why Apple dumped IBM?
(Yes, I know Nintendo’s Revolution will be using IBM chips, but I’m not worried. I think the key difference will be that the Revolution isn’t using cutting-edge CPUs—and all those stick-in-the-muds won’t be buying it.)
December 18th, 2005 at 3:12 am
intel ftw
December 18th, 2005 at 9:10 am
I live in a technologic world yet rightfully ignores the X-Box 360. Who am I?
A. Japan
December 18th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Yum. =)
December 19th, 2005 at 10:34 am
I bow to no one in my devotion to Apple, Inc., its products, Steve, and the friends I’ve had who worked for Apple.
But I really cannot say I “hate” Microsoft, primarily because of Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts. He has done a great deal of good in the Third World with the billions he has made, and he has done it largely quietly. I know of no comparable efforts from the Apple or IBM b/millionaires.
Anyway, here’s an excellent weblog entry from someone who used to work for Microsoft’s Mac IE team — I loved Mac IE when it first came out, remember? it was head and shoulders above all browsers at the time… including Win IE — about Mac IE’s formal ‘closure’:
End of an era: Mac Internet Explorer