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Harbourmaster Wrote:
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> If I don't already own a $150 copy of WinXP (and
> have it installed on my brand new IntelliMac) and
> a software maker told me to "just buy our Windows
> version to run on you Mac" I would tell them to
> F-off!
Bravo!
I'll join you and tell them to fsck off too.
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This could increase Apple's hardware sales, since macs appear, for now, to run XP faster than other machines do.
Apple MacBook Pro 'fastest Windows XP notebook'
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/22/...uo_laptop/
Apple blesses Windows XP on Macs
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/04/05/...p_on_macs/
Windows will soon come as an optional pre-install.
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Sscutchen and the betamax comment: nail, meet head. Sorry, guys n' gals, it is just reality. Reality must be faced, however disheartening it is. The upshot is that Apple makes some pretty great productivity software for us, so a lot of us would not be "totally out in the cold" as it were.
And the difference (and perhaps only solace) is our betamax can in fact run vhs.
No offense, but I hear shades of Jean Louis Gassee or whatever his name is from some in this thread..."the Mac is insanely great!" Reminds me of that whole mixup that is driving this country apart the past several years with the confusion between nationalism and patriotism.
And that giant sucking sound is indeed Adobe, et al, heading to total Winbloze programming. I don't blame them or hold it against them. Last I checked they were a business, not a charity.
Whatevah. I'm just glad I don't depend on Adobe too terribly much for my biz. It's my art director/designer friends who I feel sorry for. Poor bast@ards.
And I hope the Winbloze virii/spyware don't make the jump to all our hard drives because of Boot Camp.
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Most big software houses are going the way of the dodo soon anyway. FOSS is where it is at. The problem is going to be that rough period between when one model takes over and the other is flailing. The software will be there...it might be written in Mandarin or Hindi, but it will be there.
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I can't picture Adobe doing this; but who knows?
Given a choice, I would never work in XP.
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"It's not what the consumer will do. It is the software developers abandoning dual platform development."
The funny thing about businesses that don't listen to their customers is: those businesses tend to go out of business. Despite the perception that Steve Jobs makes all big decisions by fiat, Apple generally does a good job of listening to their customers.
This isn't OS/2 redux, people.
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So Apple then seems to be making the decision to be a hardware company, not a software one. Too bad because overpriced hardware won't sell. Why should someone spend $400-$500 more on a MacBook Pro than a similarly equipped Dell? Just for the OS, a camera, remote control software, backlit keyboard, 1" larger screen and a pound heavier?
I think the above observations are pretty close to the target. Since Apple assisting in the ability to run Windows on the Mac, then there is really no incentive for software houses to develop 2 versions. If there is no software available, no one will use the OS. So the OS becomes marinalized and fades away. Windows wins.
If Apple was serious about the OS, then the reverse scenario would apply. Apple would start selling the OS to the PC masses. THen the OS would get a chance to increase in market share. Software houses would take notice and put more effort into developing software for OS X.
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Right on...why would I want to pay more money to buy hardware to run Windows! I don't! I pay more money to buy hardware to run OS X!
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Brad Oliver of Aspyr Media offers these thoughts:
"From a business standpoint, I suspect Aspyr is, in the short term, going to continue releasing Mac ports as before and see where the market takes us. If Mac sales tank, we've got enough revenue coming in from PC and console ports that it probably won't hurt the company too much and we'd just focus on the other platforms. It's possible that the Mac market share could increase so dramatically that the demand for Mac games increases enough to offset the costs of the loss of sales to dual-booting, but I'm not so optimistic about that."
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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Ack!
