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Thanks for pointing us to this other quite biased "article" based on datas when Jobs was finally compensated (and offered a jet) for years of work at Apple without a real salary.
No wonder the guy is hiding behind Equilar for sources...
Speaking of sources, when and were do we have a cold one together? (you are buying) ;)
Now, to answer your original question : "Why the Mac are always more expensive?"
Because the Mac just works.
No problem for a cold one... But if this story is take back by the Press tomorrow, you'll pay the first one ;-)))
[edited by: Allergic at 3:44 am (utc) on Aug. 14, 2003]
However Jobs surely is one of the true innovators in the driver industry of the information age, more innovative than Gates, but with less business opportunism. He should be one of the highest paid guys in the industry when you think about it - looking just at relativities for the exercise and putting aside morality for the moment.
1. Jobs brilliantly brought Apple back from the brink of oblivion. He could have just stayed at his paying job (Pixar).
Had he failed to bring Apple back, his pay would have been, what $2.00? He took a risk, and got the reward.
2. The jet is useful to Apple.
Now Steve Jobs can work/relax/rest in comfort on his own jet during business travels. So he should be even more brilliant. Plus, it increases Apple's prestiege to have their boss arrive in style.
It's like a more expensive version of a company car.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be able the charge more, would they?
But since PC buses got to 100mHz and above, and stock grafic cards started spewing out megatexels per second, and CPU clocks rose above 500mHz; the old reputation of the Mac as the CG leader has to be questioned.
The fact that a good portion of 3DCG softwares are stricly PC, and almost all 2DCG softwares have versions for both PC and Mac, speaks volumes in itself.
Ps. OSX-64bit (Jaguar) almost makes me want to 'convert' and go buy a G5...almost. ;)
Jordan
Just a quick update on the prices: the new PowerMac G5 2 GHz [apple.com] - which is (based on acknowledged benchmark results) faster than a 3 GHZ Pentium 4 (~$3,500) or a Dell 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon (~$3,900) - currently costs $2,999 at the public apple store ... and is occasionally available elsewhere for less than $2,700.
I hope this doesn't start a fight but why is it "immoral" to be so good at a job that you are paid very well for it?
If you are smarter and a much harder worker than your neighbor, wouldn't you expect to command a higher salary?
Explain this to me?
As far as the price of Macs, aren't the Macs pretty specific as far as hardware needed to run? I mean, I can't put OSX on this hodge-podge of hardware that my Windows 98 box runs on, can I? As long as the hardware restrictions remain, the high prices will remain. I would recommend Neal Stephenson's _In the Beginning Was the Command Line_ for an interesting sociological look at operating systems, cost, and future of OSs.
