>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Bystr^m) >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>I thought they said that eventually X would just be standalone? When >>would that be slated to start? >Reasonably not before 2005. If there isn't a unreasonable chore for the >developing teams and the future upgrades like 10.4 or whatever and so on >can accomodate the classic virtual machine without a lot of *extra* work >(after all it's an app), Apple would be smart if they kept it, even >though new boxes couldn't* boot* into OS 9. >This would be attractive for people like MacOrphans that reluctantly in >2005 will buy a G5, [NOTE: I will have one long before that... :-) ] > as they now are so cheap, for her new fav refurbished >Reemailer(TM) application, built on Open Source from Apple ;=) Now THAT would be cool......in fact, that MacFixit article stated Emailer as one reason folks don't want to give up OS 9. I love OS 9, hate the "emulator" for "classic" and so if do ever switch to X it will be JUST X. So I hope the emulator will disappear, and soon. >with videomail or whatever. When they discover they are safe running old >apps if they want, say 5 times faster than before , they will come to >love the new OS what for what it have become. This way all the legacy >users will come aboard, soon or later, not because Apple forces them, but >because they have made OS X attractive and *compelling*. Doing video now on iChatAV. :-) >Let's hope that by then Macs will have 10% worldwide market share and 16% >in the US. :) Marketshare is not really representative of the amount of Macs "in use" I've found........does it count people like moi with 12-16 going at any one time? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
