On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:32:00AM -0400, Ben Ruset wrote:
> Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>
> >Yeah, 6% could very well be a lot of units, but it still a small slice
> >of the pie! And remember, we're basically talking Windows vs APPLE,
> >here. APPLEs OS could ship on Gateways, Dells, and HP/Compaq, etc. too.
>
> For Apple to start to ship on mainstream machines, you'd have to see far
> more driver support from 3rd parties.
>
> Microsoft realized that 9 out of 10 crashes in Windows are due to shitty
> drivers written by hack programmers. The whole WHQL thing was created by
> Microsoft to solve the problem, and even then, they still stink.
>
> Once you start diluting OSX with crap drivers, it's going to become just
> as awful as Windows is. The idea that the OS and hardware are so tightly
> integrated together that things "just work" is a huge selling point for
> Apple.
To a point yes, stability.
However the interface is still light years ahead of Win. Vista... what a
huge letdown.
--
Bryan G. Seitz
