04-06-2006, 02:17 AM
I think that this was smart move. That cat was already out of the bag. Eventually the nerd overlords would have made it more accessible to the masses to dual boot. Apple just figured it was time to show them how to do it right, and easy. This will get OS X into more households. When your XP installation blows up in your face, what are you going to use to download a patch or search for a solution? OS X. Will you even bother to search for a solution? Most people will just switch to OS X and be done with XP. They already write off their computers ever 1-2 years as it is. Most people just accept that this is how it is. Eventually people will just abandon XP because it requires way too much work compared to OS X. The concern about developers is a valid concern though. If Apple times it just right they'll hit a teetering point where OS X hit s critical mass, XP starts to crumble, users start to switch, and though Windows looks tempting, it won't look AS tempting then because OS X will be in lots more households.