{"id":221,"date":"2006-01-14T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=221"},"modified":"2006-01-14T10:17:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T17:17:54","slug":"whod_a_thunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;d a thunk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perceptive Slashdotter <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/01\/14\/0032228\">notes<\/a> that we just witnessed a remarkable turn of events in the computer business. Consider:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Dell+Apple+should+close+shop\/2100-1001_3-203937.html\">October 6, 1997<\/a>: &#8220;When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion. And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one. &#8216;What would I do? I&#8217;d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,&#8217; Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.nasdaq.com\/Quote.dll?symbol=AAPL&#038;symbol=dell&#038;mode=stock&#038;multi.x=26&#038;multi.y=4\">January 13, 2006<\/a>: Apple&#8217;s market value surpasses Dell&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p>Dell: $71,970,702,760<\/p>\n<p>Apple: $72,132,428,843<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know that fortune&#8217;s fickleness remains intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perceptive Slashdotter notes that we just witnessed a remarkable turn of events in the computer business. Consider: October 6, 1997: &#8220;When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion. And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}