Microsoft has responded positively to Apple's Boot Camp, stating: "Windows is a great operating system. We're pleased that Apple customers are excited about running it, and that Apple is responding to meet the demand." Apple, in the meantime, stated that Apple will never sell Macs with Windows pre-installed, while VoodooPC's CTO wonders what Boot Camp's implications might be. And on a related note, VMWare's CEO confirmed that they are working on a version for Mac OS X on Intel. Update: According to AppleInsider, Apple will rename its iBook line to MacBook, and launch them near the end of this month. The MacBook will sport Core-Duo processors, 13" widescreen, built-in iSight, and Front Row/remote.
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Member since:2005-11-10
i hope i'm wrong, but i'm seeing the origins of the demise of osx.
Never. Steve loves his NeXT/OSX, and HATES Windows. He would never drop it in favor of being a hardware only company. He gave an interview a few years ago where he said: "People still don't get it. Apple is a software company." You can find this interview on the web still, yet people act like it doesn't exist and go on and on about how Apple is a hardware company. That's not the way Steve sees it.
Member since:2005-07-06
Never. Steve loves his NeXT/OSX, and HATES Windows. He would never drop it in favor of being a hardware only company. He gave an interview a few years ago where he said: "People still don't get it. Apple is a software company." You can find this interview on the web still, yet people act like it doesn't exist and go on and on about how Apple is a hardware company. That's not the way Steve sees it.
Dixit Jobs : "Apple's core strength is to bring very high technology to mere mortals in a way that surprises and delights them and that they can figure out how to use. Software is the key to that. In fact, software is the user experience. " ( http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/02/21/8... )
Or as Cringely puts it "Apple is a software company that sells its products inside $1800 boxes."
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2006-02-07
i wonder if this is a hidden "focus shift," apple ultimately going the route of a hardware-only company. Probably apple is sounding the waters to see how much more popular the mac and OSX becomes in the near future. If it's just the hardware looks that atttrracts new costumers then maintaining osx would be a financial liability. opening OSX to all hardware makers may raise OSX's market share and viability. But going that route would make apple too diverse a company. i hope i'm wrong, but i'm seeing the origins of the demise of osx. or may be the OSX division spins off as a separate company...