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Mm, their are some intersting points made in the article... and since IBM did it.... why not apple ?
Be sure to read the pc mag article
Be sure to read the pc mag article
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[NEWS] Will Apple Adopt Windows?
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SGI did it all at once with the 320 and 540 line, of which I am currently thinking of buying. Not only did they switch the hardware inside to Intel P-IIIs, they switched the OS to Windows.
They managed to get away with it by developing their own custom chipset that was heavily optimized for graphical work and rendering polys.
Apple is another story though. Apple doesn't specialize like SGI, and last I checked you cannot optimize a chipset for snobbiness. Okay, yeah, I suppose if Steve Jobs says that it is optimized for snobbiness, the appletards will believe it. But they are already entrenched in their own little world, and it is new customers that Apple needs.
What would be more "realistic" (and by realistic, I mean 'expect this to happen the day after Jimmy Hoffa is found') would be for Apple to (mostly) get out of the OS business, concentrate on their hardware, and develop a custom shell for Vista and some heavily Apple Hardware dependent drivers. Sell it at a premium over the "normal" Windows that us commonfolk use, and give their lifetime users the one fingered salute.
Or you know, they could just continue to bastardize FreeBSD and Linux for free...
They managed to get away with it by developing their own custom chipset that was heavily optimized for graphical work and rendering polys.
Apple is another story though. Apple doesn't specialize like SGI, and last I checked you cannot optimize a chipset for snobbiness. Okay, yeah, I suppose if Steve Jobs says that it is optimized for snobbiness, the appletards will believe it. But they are already entrenched in their own little world, and it is new customers that Apple needs.
What would be more "realistic" (and by realistic, I mean 'expect this to happen the day after Jimmy Hoffa is found') would be for Apple to (mostly) get out of the OS business, concentrate on their hardware, and develop a custom shell for Vista and some heavily Apple Hardware dependent drivers. Sell it at a premium over the "normal" Windows that us commonfolk use, and give their lifetime users the one fingered salute.
Or you know, they could just continue to bastardize FreeBSD and Linux for free...
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just another pc in my eye's.... they lost the apple when they went intel .. my 2cents
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OS-X is far more stable than windows in my experience...I'm not an apple fanboy, I have an ibook for my schoolwork and my computer in my sig at home. the only reason IMO people buy apples is for the OS. it makes no sense at all for apple to drop OS-X for windows...
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hookem2oo7 said:
Unfortuantly no, most people buy apple as said for the looks and marketing - apple tends to cater to the "cultured" poeople as some might say - i would take a guess that %80 of apple owner know JACK about the O/S except it looks nice, just as %80 of Windows owners know jack about the O/S and like it cause it works and it is what they are used to.
if apple dumps thier OS then there would really not be much of a reason to buy a Mac since PC's are SOOO much cheaper. however if they allow thier OS to spread to PC's, then i could see it being used by plenty of people who want it, but not the price that goes with it. the side effect of this is that windows would prbly become avalible for the mac.
i wish Mac would release an OS for the PC that was compatable wiht current games and such and accually give MS a decent competetion.
i wish Mac would release an OS for the PC that was compatable wiht current games and such and accually give MS a decent competetion.
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Mac users may be ticked about this...since most I talk to are biased to the Mac OS.
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They're not appletard's or mac users, they're Macolytes! Apple will never switch over to windows. OS X is functionally superior for their userbase. It just wouldn't make sense. Dvorak is a known crackpot.
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MaStA said:
Most are biased because they dont know any better - it is the same people who think dell is nothing but crap! when really they arent
they have "heard" from all their friends it sucks, or stinks instead of finding out on their own they jump the bandwagon.
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Mr.Guvernment said:
Well dell has gone to crap since all their tech support is in India or something. Can't understand them and they have no clue what they are talking about. Sorry to come off rude, but someone needs to speak my language fluently for me to be happy with tech support.
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Apple will never drop the Mac OS for Windows. It looks much more likely to me that Apple is prepairing to (or at least seriously considering) sell OSX for mainstream PC hardware. That would instantly give them probably hundreds of millions of potential customers who might not be willing to drop $2000 on a Mac but might be willing to drop $100 on the OS.
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Mac should just dual boot! Windows and OSX on a mac would make it alot more appealing.
OSX on PC's would become buggier than Windows LOL.
Can you imagine all the driver problems and platform nightmares... OSX has no driver base besides the strictly controlled Mac platforms. Also it wouldn't be no 100bucks for OSX. Apple would charge the standard premium for using such a status symbol.
OSX on PC's would become buggier than Windows LOL.
Can you imagine all the driver problems and platform nightmares... OSX has no driver base besides the strictly controlled Mac platforms. Also it wouldn't be no 100bucks for OSX. Apple would charge the standard premium for using such a status symbol.
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those points seem very weak
i haven't read anything (nor was any evidence presented) that suggests apples 'switch' ads weren't effective or that they are doing poorly.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=msft
the ipod losing firewire is a simple way to cut costs. in the begining there was firewire. they wanted to expand, and adding USB was a great way to do that. now they need to pay for 2 different interfaces. why not keep the one that is universal (USB) and drop the one that only a small fraction has (firewire)? thats just common sense.
microsoft office for the next 5 years? and that means that after that they're dropping osx? come on, that is quite the speculation. maybe apple is working on their own program? maybe microsoft is losing interest? maybe they just haven't planned that far? maybe the rep was just pulling a number out of his ***.
apple trying to keep things locked down? its a very very far reach to say its only because they are trying to keep a secret further down the road. and that secret is microsoft. come on... one of apples unique practices is releasing things and having it available right away. rumors and such remove a key facet of this. the surprise. the way they run, i think clamping down is a good move. it keeps their releases spontaneous and exciting. much more anticipation.
when i started reading, i thought maybe there would be some logical arguments. this seems like complete bull****, though. these arguments are very far-fetched and barely cling together.
i haven't read anything (nor was any evidence presented) that suggests apples 'switch' ads weren't effective or that they are doing poorly.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=msft
the ipod losing firewire is a simple way to cut costs. in the begining there was firewire. they wanted to expand, and adding USB was a great way to do that. now they need to pay for 2 different interfaces. why not keep the one that is universal (USB) and drop the one that only a small fraction has (firewire)? thats just common sense.
microsoft office for the next 5 years? and that means that after that they're dropping osx? come on, that is quite the speculation. maybe apple is working on their own program? maybe microsoft is losing interest? maybe they just haven't planned that far? maybe the rep was just pulling a number out of his ***.
apple trying to keep things locked down? its a very very far reach to say its only because they are trying to keep a secret further down the road. and that secret is microsoft. come on... one of apples unique practices is releasing things and having it available right away. rumors and such remove a key facet of this. the surprise. the way they run, i think clamping down is a good move. it keeps their releases spontaneous and exciting. much more anticipation.
when i started reading, i thought maybe there would be some logical arguments. this seems like complete bull****, though. these arguments are very far-fetched and barely cling together.
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Ssetre said:
You're right, but that is why Apple is doing it themselves, slowly at first with just supporting their Intel machines. After a while they will have mass driver support and be ready for prime time.
Apple currently charges $129 for a copy of OS X. I'd expect it to stay about the same. However, all of this is just a theory of mine, but I think it could happen. It seems more likely than the theory suggested in this article.
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