At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what
he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the
mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.
I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a
Hi Bill,
I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application
(FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a foreign operating system like
Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a
compromise, but it has to be better than switching
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware
sales to increase as well.
Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the clone era,
and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first and
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in
software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue
would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for
the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that
At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what
he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the
mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.
I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a
Hi Bill,
I appreciate your comments, but I would rather keep my primary application
(FrameMaker), even if I had to run it on a "foreign" operating system like
Windows XP. The ability to run FrameMaker on the Mac via Windows may be a
compromise, but it has to be better than switching
At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
>And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's hardware
>sales to increase as well.
Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the "clone" era,
and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first
True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in
software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue
would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for
the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that
