While I don’t think that everything will remain the same - of course, things will eventually evolve - methinks this Motley Fool article about the rather arrogantly-named start-up “Pioneers of the Inevitable” turning Apple & the iTunes Music Store into another Compaq or SGI is just a tad ridiculous.

Namely, while the author recalls the history of Compaq, SGI and Informix as supporting his argument of Apple’s eventual change from a successful company into thoroughly beat-down follower, he ignores counter-examples like, say… oh, Microsoft? One might even add Red Hat as another. Just because Apple has a solid, overwhelmingly-popular, industry-dominating product offering for the first time since the Apple II line doesn’t automatically mean that they’ll ultimately fail. Frankly, I don’t really understand this anti-Apple schadenfreude exhibited by analysts and the press - especially given the infinite amount of free passes Microsoft gets (despite the relative dearth of actual innovation that comes out of Redmond). God forbid that they should learn from their lessons of failure in the past and make an overwhelming rebound…