04-07-2006, 01:09 AM
Gruber may be intelligent, and though I confess to enjoying the gist of his message, these two statements leave me wondering about the validity of his perceptions:
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.
Anyone who spent any time at all on the dealmac forum during the first two years of OS X's release will remember the massive groundswell of resistance to the new OS. There were innumerable posts from folks who swore they wouldn't give up OS 9 until there was literally no other option. A few of these folks still run OS 9, more than five years after the release of X.
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.
One reason many users resisted the move to OS X was because some OS 9-only piece of software or another that they simply couldn't live without was not available for X and they didn't want to take the performance hit of running it in Classic. Many users cling to OS 9 to this day for the same reason. This is especially true in professional environments.
I hope Gruber's right, but his revisionism serves no good purpose.
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.
Anyone who spent any time at all on the dealmac forum during the first two years of OS X's release will remember the massive groundswell of resistance to the new OS. There were innumerable posts from folks who swore they wouldn't give up OS 9 until there was literally no other option. A few of these folks still run OS 9, more than five years after the release of X.
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.
One reason many users resisted the move to OS X was because some OS 9-only piece of software or another that they simply couldn't live without was not available for X and they didn't want to take the performance hit of running it in Classic. Many users cling to OS 9 to this day for the same reason. This is especially true in professional environments.
I hope Gruber's right, but his revisionism serves no good purpose.