“In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end of time. Today most Microsoft applications sell in the $300 to $500 range, ten years from… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's cheap insurance,… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft,… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative"… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
“In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
“There are lots of people who aren't going to like this book, whether they are into morals or not. I figure there are three… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
