It never rains but it pours
And as with the weather as with work for me at the moment. How can it be possible to have three massive presentations in one week and absolutely none for the rest of the year? I wish I was doing a sensible organised degree like physics where the workload never overlaps. Instead I have to be on a course that can’t even timetable my core units so they don’t overlap with each other. I am none to keen on having to decide which lecture to prioritise every Monday and even less keen to get up in the dark mornings in order to make that decision.
But at least one of my presentations is about Steve Jobs and Apple Computer(!). I haven’t had a excuse to talk for England about such a good topic since week three of PrIB computing class, and now in 2008 I have even more ammunition. Did you know for instance that Apple earns well over half of Microsoft’s profits and three quarters of Microsoft’s revenue despite cornering a ‘measly four percent of the market’. If I had a choice between that kind of four percent, or the low margin dregs of the other ninety-something percent then I know which I would choose. The morals are (1) never underestimate your competition, (2) design sells and (3) the public can’t get enough of sexy brushed aluminium.
