The Swing Of Things

At ZDnet there’s this David Berlind guy - apparantly he’s been around since 1998 or so - claiming that Apple should license OS X. Well, not only should they, in fact, they might not even have choice but to. Not only that - he goes on bragging his business insight as well:

And, compared to selling hardware, selling bits is like printing money.

Right. That may be the reason why there is an abundance of companies currently selling operating systems around the globe. Newsflash: it´s like printing money IF you have a working monopoly of selling those bits. Otherwise it’s called competition - which means margins go down.

It would of course be stupid of Apple to do something like this. OS X is the core differentiator of their whole business, and the very reason why they - in fact - are “printing” money right at this moment.

Seems like he gets scolded east and west now though. Poor fellow.

Perhaps it’s time for Berlind to reconsider himself?

It is a really beautiful song - much in the spirit of his ‘Wild Seed’ album. Originally by the norwegian band Locomotives under the name ‘My Woman’. Here performed during the a-ha tribute night at Idol 2007 in Norway:

Unfortunately Linnea got booted this friday - in my opinion the only one coming close to a-ha nerve in her performance of Velvet.