Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 09.08.2006 dc wrote:
And even if it isn't, why couldn't the OS itself be profitable if it
could compete and compare favorably with other OS's?
Well, because their current market share is rather small compared to
Windows. Their development effort is at least as big as MS's, if not a
lot bigger.
Isn't this discussion going into a rather strange direction? As far as I
can see all Darcy was trying to work out was whether the current MacPros
are priced comparably to a similar Windows machine.
[snip]
Well nobody's got their hands on Fin2007 yet (I'll bet some show up at
people's doorsteps today) so there's nothing else really to discuss.
But the whole point concerning selling the OS separately is that if it
truly is superior to Windows, as many Mac users would have us believe,
then mightn't Apple actually gain a huge market share and really put the
screws to Microsoft since many of us hate the OS but are happy to be
able to configure our machines as we see fit?
Seems silly to me -- Microsoft simply tells people who can't get the OS
working properly to contact their hardware manufacturers since the
problem (whatever it is) isn't with the OS. Then when the hardware
people tell the end user to contact Microsoft since the problem isn't
with hardware but lies in the OS. Then Microsoft tells people to
reformat their hard drives and reinstall Windows. Why couldn't Apple do
the same? They certainly wouldn't have any smaller market share than
they do now, and they might see a huge rise in their profits since
making and selling the physical media the OS comes on is extremely cheap
compared to making computers to sell the OS on.
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David H. Bailey
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