On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:51 AM, George Mogiljansky wrote:
Bruce, There was never an official "plausible denial" for the parallel development of OSX for the Intel platform,
Actually there never was any denial at all, nor was there an acknowledgment.
and the 'rumor' surfaced as early as 2002 if I'm not mistaken.
Oh, Mac on Intel has been a rumor for far longer than that,
The "cell chip" argument with IBM/Sony was a plausible excuse to execute the option to abandon PowerPC.
Actually it's far more than plausible, game developers are having a hard time getting the promised performance out of the cell chip. Moreover, look at what Intel laid out in their roadmap this week.
I suspect Apple's long term strategy is to withdraw into a proprietary shell and compete on "eye candy" alone.
That make no sense unless you kave no understanding of anything beyond the superficial aspects of OS X or comprehend anything about Apple's business model. You and lots of other folks seem to think Apple's just going to snap their fingers and become a software company. The only peoole who are convinced of this are either people who have no concept of the business environment or are just waiting for a copy of OS X they can pirate and run on their cheapo hardware. 5-10% of the market can sustain a hardware company, it cannot sustain an OS software company.
Plus, IBM's wholescale embrace of Linux does not match Apple's "make 'em pay" approach.
How? IBM sells hardware; Apple sells hardware. Apple offers OS X as an incentive to buy their hardware. IBM sells Linux because their hardware niche (servers) is well supported by Linux. You have noticed that IBM never offered Linux on their desktops and laptops, nor does Lenovo do so now.
Apple is far and away the largest vendor of Unix on the desktop, no matter what the zeaolots on Slashdot would have you believe.
So it comes down to slightly tweaked (as in "add a chip to prevent using any other OS") but essentially dirt cheap hardware with eye candy OS and "easy-to-use" apps versus Linux (across the board compatibility) and a longer learning curve but free and easier to find free support.
Well that's an analysis that makes a hekll of a lot of unwarranted assumptions.; starting with the presumption that OS X is all just eye- candy.
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