At 9:17 AM -0700 01/12/2006, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not necessarily. They could embrace the open-source movement and
that thing called The Internet a bit more... Offer OS X
unsupported, without the bs to make it "only run on a Mac".
Watch your revenues crash as you yank the rug out of over half of
your revenues. Apple becomes an iPod only company. The stock tanks,
shareholders revolt, and Steve Jobs rues the day he ever listened to
darm0k.
APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY, OSX IS THE INCENTIVE TO BUY A MAC
Oh, I know. We've talked about this before.
And I guess I'm stuck on it. Yes, Apple is a hardware company. But
now their hardware *isn't* better than the next guy's.
Some of us will be satisfied for Apple to be a Mercedes - holding
onto its itty bitty market share. But some of us want OS X to take
over the world. Then again, on the gripping hand, the lemmings do
need Windows... Don't mind me; I've been sucking down too much DXM -
gots the flu.
Work with the developer/hacker/user community for a year or two, to
build a base of ad-hoc supported systems. Then, as the
market-share begins to explode, jump in with both feet.
Then why hasn't the Linux market share exploded?
Lack of a high-quality user-friendly desktop interface.
- Dan.
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