On Apr 16, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
Just to spice things up a little. Episode 41 of the Linux Action show contains (about 50 minutes in) a description of how Apple makes both support of and development for more difficult. The support issue concerns Apple's resistance to running OSX in virtualization and the support issues involves virtualization and the big changes in versions of OSX api's, this especially impacts independent developers who need to do cross-platform development. At the end, they speculate that Apple isn't really interested in being a computer company anymore (and/or supporting OSX).
For some time, in fact since the advent of the iPod, it has been my speculation, based in great part on Apple's seemingly almost singular public focus on entertainment oriented products and services, that they were no longer going to be truly a computer manufacturer. In discussion with others over the time period since the iPod and the iTunes music store were introduced, I have often mentioned this feeling that I have had about the future that Apple has seemingly decided to hitch itself to. Apple even appears to have entertainment as the primary focus on their sales approach to marketing their current line of computers, but then, that is also the tactic that Windows machine makers are employing as well.
If Apple can get enough folks to buy their machines in order for those buyers to run Windows, they just might cut way back on supporting OS X as they eye the huge Windows user market.
A couple of die-hard Windows users that I know are saying to me that the next computer they are going to buy will be a Mac. But, their decision, as one has said, to join the "dark side," is not because they have any interest at all in running under the Mac environment, but because they perceive that a computer made by Apple, even running Windows, will be less troublesome than the PCs that they now have struggles with.
So, is a Windows user who buys a Mac to run under Windows a Mac user or still a Windows user? I'd have to say that they will still be Windows users who have merely bought a Mac instead of a Dell.
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