While I'm all for Woz and such, he still is "technically" an employee, and has made quite a load of money off of their stock.
Woz gets a token 120k paycheck. He should own half the company.
The Bold 9000 was a great phone, but neither that or the iPhone of the time was high resolution. The iphone 4 ushered in that era. I give the iPhone the credit because it is what made all other manufacturers take notice and step up the display quality.
I never owned a Bold, I had a curve 8900. It came out way back in 2008 and had a 264 ppi screen. I consider that high res, as you could barely see pixels at all, and the colors were amazing and better than most 2010 and 2011 phones. For 2008, it was mind-blowing. In comparison, the Iphone 3G of 2008 had a measly 165 ppi. If anything I would say that Blackberry pioneered high-res screens, not Apple.
Mac build quality isn't great because of the individual components. It's the unibody case, the good screen, the keyboard that's pleasant to type on, and the trackpad that works exactly the way it's supposed to each and every time you use it. It's the overall package that makes the hardware truly great, not any individual component.
The case and the keyboard huh. Well take a look at my 300 dollar case. I've seen a million and one macs, and I guarantee mine has better build quality. the build is all steel, hybrid glass and aluminum and is fantastic. BTW you can buy the newest and best Mac wireless keyboard for 60 bucks and it works with a PC.
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If you subtract the price of the hardware in the mac (500-1000 dollars depending on the model) your case, monitor and keyboard cost 1000-2000+ dollars depending on whether it's an Imac or a mac pro. That had better be plated in gold for that price. I could build a complete top-of-the-line PC with all the accessories for that. And Honestly, there's nothing wrong with a cheap PC keyboard or case either if you go that route. When is the last time anyone you know had their PC's case fail to function? I never have in 20 years of computing.
And if you want to bring up viruses, or software issues and whatnot (you haven't yet, to your credit) I'd just like to say, my PC works exactly the way I expect it to, every time I use it. I've never had a virus on Windows 7, even though I don't have an anti-virus program, I just use AVG Boot to check every few months. I don't have software crashes or any of that garbage, that was more the windows XP era and previous. Now on the Mac side, since Apple never worried about viruses as their market-share was too low for virus designers to give it attention, they were totally unprepared when Mac superviruses appeared last year, now leaving a huge amount of Macs infected.
And here's a quick look at at the main specs of the 5000 dollar mac pro. Two 2.66ghz CPUs (31 total Ghz), 6gb RAM, A 1TB HD, and a Raden 5770.
Now lets see how much similar (or better) hardware would cost on a PC: 8-core AMD FX OC at 4.0 Ghz (32 total Ghz), 24 GB RAM (4 times the RAM of the mac), a 2TB HD, and and Radeon 6850 (far better GPU). The total is 1200 dollars, for the complete system, power-supply, motherboard, 24 inch moniter all of it. And I included 300 dollars for the case of your choice, you could knock off 250 if you got a cheap case. Or you could make it a 3 monitor set-up for an extra 300.
Sorry, but to me, that is crazy. I would use up the Mac's 6gb of RAM in no time, heck I keep 6GB worth of tabs open in chrome (a couple hundred). And a Radeon 5770? I did a double take when I read that on the Mac Store. That's a crazy old CPU. As in holy crap I can't freaking believe that's in a 5000 dollar machine old. A 6800 is only 100 bucks.
It seems to me like Apple is trying to keep to the old archetype of a computer costing several thousand dollars, back when the parts were made in America or Japan and manufacturing costs were very high. But that simply isn't the case anymore and it's ridiculous they haven't changed their prices to show that.
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