--- Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > Reply: Huh? The whole point of using 'cheapo' hardware is to reduce the price of computing. How is that unrelated to today's business environment?
> > 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. About the server performance: <http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=6> Quote ".. The G5 as Server CPU While it is the Xserve and not the PowerMac that is Apple's server platform, we could not resist the temptation to test the G5 based machine as a server too. Installed on the machine was the server version of Mac OS X Tiger. So in fact, we are giving the Apple platform a small advantage: the 2.5 GHz CPUs are a bit faster than the 2.3 GHz of the Xserve, and the RAM doesn't use ECC as in the Xserve... Performance is at that point only 1/10th of the Opteron and Xeon. We have tested this on Panther (10.3) and on Tiger (10.4.1), triple-checked every possible error and the result remains the same: something is terribly wrong with the MySQL server performance.." I will leave the rest of the reasoning up to interested readers. > 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. > "all just eye candy"..then why 4 or more major or total rewrites of the desktop OS? Why are some, if not all, CPU upgrades "incompatible"? Of course, Slashdot will copy the instructions for installing "OSX on a PC" as originally published on a European website. That sort of publicity can't be bought, eh, Bruce? --George > Bruce Johnson ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
