Forbes magazine online gives a glowing report on Apple's current state.
One paragraph, however, scolds it for lacking a handheld device: "Before
Apple drifts into self-aggrandizing bravura, though, more work needs to
be done if
it wants to bolster sales--$6.13
billion in fiscal 1999--and become a contender in the $40
billion corporate-computing market.
For starters, it needs to fill a gaping hole in software.
Mac OS X could be a start, but it
will need to attract software developers, who abandoned
the company during its hard times.
The personal computer pioneer also sorely lacks a
handheld device--an area in which
it at one time was a trendsetter, with the doomed
Newton MessagePad. "
See the artice at:
http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/00/apr/0414/featb.htm
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