Macs in Science -- Feedback for Apple?

Feedback for Apple?

I stopped doing that after I wrote an article, entitled "Apple finds Oil", which appeared on the cover page of the American Association of Professional Geologist's edition of the AAPG Explorer. The AAPG is the world's largest Geological society and this article was the first nationally recognized microcomputer oil and gas discovery -- a big deal at the time.

I bought a couple of dozen copies of the publication and sent one to the "heads" of every department I could find at Apple, including the president.

What did I receive in return? Not even a thank you -- it wasn't important to them and that's probably one of the reasons why the petroleum industry is totally Windows based now -- but it wasn't at the start, we just didn't have any support from Apple.

So, I'll continue to keep my discoveries to myself, thank you.

Cheers,

tedd

On Mar 27, 2007, at 2:01 PM, tedd wrote:

> Feedback for Apple?
>
> I stopped doing that after I wrote an article, entitled "Apple
> finds Oil", which appeared on the cover page of the American
> Association of Professional Geologist's edition of the AAPG
> Explorer. The AAPG is the world's largest Geological society and
> this article was the first nationally recognized microcomputer oil
> and gas discovery -- a big deal at the time.
>
> I bought a couple of dozen copies of the publication and sent one
> to the "heads" of every department I could find at Apple, including
> the president.
>
> What did I receive in return? Not even a thank you.

When did you do this, Tedd?

There was a long period (over a decade, actually) where Apple was
trying to just stay alive by retrenching and sticking with its "core
markets." During that period Apple ignored entire large vertical
markets where they had previously had a good deal of success. So it
is not surprising that they would ignore a market where they
traditionally had had no involvement.

I'm not saying that Apple has a huge interest in vertical markets
now, but they are at least somewhat better about supporting them.
If you need a name and contact information for someone at Apple who
might show an interest, just let me know.

Randy B. Singer