recidivist wrote:
Now that macs are windows friendly I wonder if windows won't simply push macOS out of existence ;unless Apple are planning to become an alternate OS supplier to the standard pc,I think they just committed OS suicide with the last changes. Apple may have a new niche as those really cool brand of Windows computers.
I have discussed this issue ad nauseum with colleagues and we have come to a simple conclusion: moving to x86 was a brilliant move by Apple.
First, MacOS X moves to x86, then comes Boot Camp. Supposedly very soon you will actually be able to switch between Windows and Mac without rebooting! This is sheer brilliance in the scope of pulling people away from Windows and to Mac. Many people I speak to who deal with the two platforms prefer Mac but are kept away by the expensive hardware. Generally (and I fall into an exception of this as well) those who say they do not prefer Mac over Windows cut their teeth on Windows and are fully assimilated into Wintel.
But it's the younger generation. Gamers are moving in droves. Up-and-coming web developers and graphics artists are coming back to Mac after having left for less expensive hardware. As are film students. Microsoft has a helluva fight on its hands, and it has all but admitted so (I have a post in another thread about what was said at a recent TS2 seminar about Vista's Mac-ish qualities.)
Apple is cool, they made the iPod. And Mac is cool because of Apple -- a recent ad I read for Mac OS says (paraphrasing) "if you're familiar with iTunes, you're already familiar with Mac OS."
For the same reasons above I stated in another thread that should Amiga make a comeback, it would have to be on x86 or x64. And the same reasons above are why Apple chose x86 over x64, though I believe that 64-bit
should be in their mid-term road map.
Errrr, I'm out of steam on this one (it's in the wrong forum, anyway.) Time for bed. HEY, how 'bout them Noles?! :cheers:
