On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 13:23 +0800, Brett Carboni wrote:
> - It sounds like we're up for a(nother) software transition for
> sociological reasons:
I think it may be more like economic reasons.
Steve's vision for Apple in the future may be to be an opposition to
WIndows.
Maybe... he has to worry about the fact that Apple *needs* Microsoft for
Office, though. At least for now.
In a year or two OpenOffice will be more advanced, and probably
easier to get running on Intel. Not to mention the iApps
> That way his share of OS sales will go from 3% to perhaps 48%, a
1600% increase. Imagine being on-line buying a Dell and clicking a
Mac OSX Cheetah check box :-) It's logical to suppose that Windows
does need an opposition.
Yep. The risk is that if they encroach too far on MS's territory they
might be seen as a threat. That's probably not wise.
But if they encroach too far on MS's territory then MS can point to
Apple and say 'No your Honour, we're not a monopoly'.
My personal suspicion is that they won't be able to /stop/ people
running MacOS/X on standard hardware once they release the x86 port. It
might have to be done via a virtualization layer akin to Mac-on-Linux,
but I bet it'll happen.
I would rate it as quite likely, given the amount of hackery out
there for things like the XBox, PlayStation etc.
I think it's quite likely Apple is transitioning towards being more
of a software company. Hopefully it'll spend about a decade showing
Intel PC makers how to do it right first from both a technical and an
aesthetic perspective!
Have fun,
Shay
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