This is not the first case is completely different, with one exception: Microsoft will not be the center of the PC industry chain, but only IBM is one of many suppliers will eventually be acquired by its partners. Although slower, but innovation is inevitable. Finally, by Apple, IBM other than the third-party developers will start to get the operating system users. The company will be? Its hard to say, may be Sun, it may be one in the real world and there have been no company. Although Apple will continue to produce the most stylish computers, IBM has the best sales force, but the high-tech industries of the Third World to appear exciting products. In two cases, the internet will be born, but it will take much longer to universal time, because the price of PC requires a much longer time before ordinary people can be reduced to acceptable levels. More importantly, the high-tech industry fanatical culture of innovation require a longer time to develop, because venture capitalists have shied away from high-tech industries, and to put more money into other areas of biology.
In contrast, in the computer and telecommunications networks will be long-term return on investment, when the situation is more likely to be delayed when tightening. New Year, a wave of U.S. technology stocks down market, investors are nervous waiting for the industry leader in its fourth quarter earnings release, such as IBM, Wipro, Seagate. IBM released the data to those who fear a U.S. recession, declining spending on people some hope. However, during this time, the management of any sign of trouble they got wind of investors are likely to flee, just as AT T CEO at the beginning of the warning message issued after some modest market giving rise to a panic reaction.