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Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - sscutchen - 04-06-2006
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/windows_the_new_classic
A few tidbits:
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The fear that Windows-on-Mac-hardware implies the eventual death or marginalization of Mac OS X is baseless. Sure, third party developers could start using “Just boot into Windows” as their answer to questions regarding Mac support, but this is no more likely to be popular or successful than it was for developers whose OS X strategy was “Just use Classic”.
This is a move of supreme confidence — Apple relishes the comparison between Mac OS X and Windows XP, and Microsoft has shown enough of Vista via its widely-available beta seeds that Apple quite obviously isn’t afraid of that comparison, either.
Windows is so ubiquitous that the vast majority of Mac users are already quite familiar with it; I see no chance that Boot Camp is going to cause any Mac users to realize that they’ve been missing out on something better. But from the other side, Apple is confident that most Windows users who give Mac OS X a shot are going to prefer it — again, much in the same way that most long-time Mac users preferred Mac OS X to the old Mac OS.
In the same way that Mac users found themselves in a race to go Classic-free after switching to OS X, and that running apps through Classic was viewed from the get-go as something to be done while holding one’s nose, so too will Windows be viewed in the post-Boot Camp world.
Microsoft can’t act like they care — Apple is doing nothing even vaguely sketchy or wrong here, and while Apple isn’t paying Microsoft a dime, anyone using Boot Camp legitimately is doing so by way of a paid-for Windows license.
But everything about Boot Camp is calibrated to position Windows-on-Mac as the next Classic-style ghetto — a compatibility layer that you might need but that you wish you didn’t. Take Apple’s “Word to the Wise” warning regarding Windows security
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - Jimmypoo - 04-06-2006
I like it. I hope Dvorak ends up eating some dung in a year over the percentage changes.
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - BigGuynRusty - 04-06-2006
Read that article earlier, great piece. Thanks for the post!
Some folks here don't like the guy because he exposed the "Repair Permissions" myth.
BGnR
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - Seacrest - 04-06-2006
I hope Dvorak is living in the "Ghetto" by that time as well.
(Like I am)
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - IronMac - 04-06-2006
That's just one guy's opinion...the validity of which may or may not be proven until two to three years out.
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - BigGuynRusty - 04-07-2006
IronMac Wrote:
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> That's just one guy's opinion...the validity of
> which may or may not be proven until two to three
> years out.
Already proven here, got a call from a client, had scheduled a new notebooks meeting at the end of this month, he called to reschedule for this monday.
He said that he is changing his mind about the Dell laptops, he is going to all MacBooks.
I just have to do a demo on installation, and performance.
80 MacBooks minimum.
BGnR
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - IronMac - 04-07-2006
Why is he going with MacBooks? What are the apps that they are running? Is he aware that they will still have malware on the Windows' side?
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - Silencio - 04-07-2006
John Gruber's opinion carries a lot of weight in the Mac world: he is an extremely smart and perceptive guy. Not that he's perfect, but I give his opinions a lot more weight than those of the average Chicken Littles out there.
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - IronMac - 04-07-2006
I guess if Mr. Gruber didn't like the idea of Boot Camp he'd be called a "Chicken Little" too?
Re: Boot Camp: Best Article Yet, esp on Software - BigGuynRusty - 04-07-2006
IronMac Wrote:
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> Why is he going with MacBooks? What are the apps
> that they are running? Is he aware that they will
> still have malware on the Windows' side?
There are three apps that are not on the Mac, and never will be, and yes, he understands about malware, and all the other crap.
His employees are already sending me "Way To Go!" emails.
BGnR