“Chaffin foretold a world in which Apple would anchor the
Digital Hub, become a (small) player in the enterprise market,
blaze a trail in the digital-video market and free the people from
the tyranny of ‘My Computer’ to the pursuit of “My Digital
Life.”“For his part, Enderle also presaged a time five years from now,
in which Apple would be a digital entertainment powerhouse. He even
concurred somewhat with Chaffin that Apple would continue to build
and maintain a stranglehold on professional content-creation
applications–workstations even!“But Mac PCs? A Mac OS? Only if Linux somehow were to be
exterminated by the forces of SCO and other mutants from the dark
side, said Enderle–a scenario about as likely as ridding New York
city of its summertime stench, with its essence of urine and
trash…”
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