Well, I've certainly been one of those who is guilty of talking Apple up on this forum - less so recently as I've been relatively busy at work.

As I read posts by the various Apple pundits (i.e. the other people on this forum that have been very vocal for years in clamoring for B&O to partner better with Apple), I continue to be impressed with the passions expressed.  I'll spare you guys by not re-posting my old letter to TBS, the former CEO of B&O, in which I plead for B&O to seek more formal ties with Apple or, at the very least, strive to leave a lot of the software up to Apple or compatible with Apples as I've made y'all endure that letter at least once in the past.  However, as I watch the predictions of myself and others about Apple's dominance come to fruition and as I also watch B&O seemingly continue to ignore what seems so obvious to so many, it makes me want to pull my hair out.

B&O - check

Apple - check

Land Rover - check (sorry to disrupt the German car / Danish AV trend, but I hunt and fish a lot and I need a tough SUV)

saf wrote:

On a lighter note:

Steve Jobs:

Mercedes - check (SL55, but he also has a Gulfstream V)

Apple - check

B&O - ?

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steve wozniak co-founder of apple ;

http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/cell-phones/bang-&-olufsen-serene/7896.html

We saw Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, pull a Serene out of his pocket during a recent video interview, and it made us wonder why he would like it so much. It must have been for the unsurpassed sound quality

Steve Wozniak also is a Bang & Olufsen stereo owner. He was interviewed recently on a History Channel episode with his BS 2500 with multi-coloured speaker grilles in the background. Cool !

But back to the thread:

Bang & Olufsen should accomodate Apple users: If not to accomodate the growing Apple user numbers, then at least to the stockholders, justified on the obvious business need to tap into the Apple market share.

In the "docu-film" "pirates of silicon valley" Steve Jobs has a B&O stereo in his office. I know Steve has had high-end stereo systems, and can certainly see him appreciating the B&O design.

XavierItzmann wrote:

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   — The NeXT Years: Steve Jobs before His Triumphant Return to Apple, Tom Horby's Orchard, 2006.12.20

If the Beoworld Forum were hosted on a Mac I bet it wouldn't crash so often :P

BTW - I have a VW (made in Mexico) two Macs and lots of B&O!

Well, I didn't imagine that I would be joining again in the PC vs Mac debate so soon, but..........

Google search function on my Windows laptop PC started behaving oddly with searches being diverted to wrong pages etc. I ran Norton and it found and quarantined a trojan virus. But the problem continued. Contacted Norton/ Symantec..... they suggested a free guide to digging into my operating system (with warnings about how I wouldn't be able to do it unless in IT), or they could do it remotely for a fee of £69.

Cur a long story short, it took them all morning to sort out the problem. (At first they said it was a new issue that would take another 48 hours to resolve.) PC now back to normal (I think.) So what annoys me is that Windows XP is inherently vulnerable to viruses, Norton 360 (£56 for two years?) is running but couldn't deal with this particular problem, so I have to pay another £69. Assuming no repeat of the problem, that's £125 total over 2 years to Norton. My approximation of converting annual costs to a present single value is to multiply by ten, so £62.50 per annum is the equivalent of an up-front £625. More than enough to justify buying any Mac over a Dell or Toshiba!

Graham

now you know why that guy with 11 posts was SO defensive over us mac guys

20 years in IT and still has a job

see above .. 😁😎