Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:01 UTC
Apple's Boot Camp has stirred things up quite a bit around the net. eWeek states: "CIOs have a lot invested in Windows and aren't going to junk the OS for Apple. However, if a CIO can get a twofer - Windows XP and Mac OS on one machine - a flyer may make some sense." In an analysis, eWeek concludes: "Boot Camp might give businesses and consumers another reason to look at the Mac, analysts and IT managers say." Cnet wonders if all this is good news for MS, while Ars looks at the limitations. Apple also released firmware updates for Intel Macs, which supposedly add BIOS support to EFI so you can just boot an XP (or Linux!) CD without using Boot Camp.
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2006-03-20
> If your reasoning was valid then there would be no
> software availalbe for other platforms than Windows.
> Well, since there is I guess your reasoning is invalid.
What other platform than Windows ?
Do you mean FOSS ? It's not commercial software.
Do you mean MacOS software ? It's (it was) a hardware protected niche.
As an MS user i want free competition, i want to be free to buy a commercial alternative, Linux is not commercial and this new Apple move is risky at best.
May be Steve Jobs is a marketing genius, may be he can counter the Embrace-Extinguish effect, may be Vista will fail and OSX will conquer hearts (it deserves to) or may be it's plain reality distortion field.
To me, seems like Apple satisfies the hardware hype and sacrifies the OSX enthousiast.
Edited 2006-04-06 18:22