DISQUS

Thanks Ben! I was just embarking on the same avenue of research on this quote (which I didn't buy either, for the same reasons as you), but you just did the work. And in a splendid fashion!

Ironically, the quote is incorrectly used by a conference I plan to attend subtitled "Leading Collective Wisdom". :-)

Oops, I forgot to blatantly self-promote. I wrote something similar back on July 25th after conference call with investors:

"The reality is that ... the bulk of Apple’s growth is from traditional sales of Macintosh computers. Of the ... $1B in growth year-over-year ... at least two thirds comes from growth in sales of desktops and laptops."

http://petersmagnusson.com/2007/07/25/iphone-sa...

It would be curious if this was intentional. From a pure "muscles" point of view, grabbing a few percentage points more of desktop/laptop market share would be huge for Apple, and would help all their efforts. It's not as if they're not doing good desktop/laptop products, they just don't have a good channel strategy. There are so many people I meet who would consider buying a Mac, but besides the TV ads, there's not much reaching-out going on.

Any pointers to where the good twitter/irc/etc is on TC40? I'm at the conf but haven't found any good chatrooms to hang out at.

First session presentation wrapped (search); easy winner on the "compelling and interesting" scale was German FAROO (P2P search).

Lol! SDK ain't gonna happen anytime soon. But good try! :-)