Re: Is Apple Testing The Watters?
- From: ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:06:19 -0400
In article <HgDbi.671$vi5.618@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"ZnU" <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:znu-10DD07.03205712062007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If Apple wants OS X to be an OS people could just go out and buy, and
install on whatever hardware they had lying around, they'll need drivers
for most of the Windows-Compatible hardware in existence. And they'll
need them from day one, or there will be a lot of unhappy campers. This
is completely implausible.
No it isn't. There are people writing drivers to get newer hardware to
run on older operating systems and vice versa. It's all a matter of will.
When I install various hardware and install drivers, not all are
signed(certified) by MS.
You really think Apple could sell a boxed copy of OS X that didn't
install on, say, 80% of Wintel machines out there, and nobody would be
bothered much?
[snip]
The iMac is not particularly competitive right now because it hasn't
been refreshed in a pretty long time, but this will likely be resolved
in a matter of weeks.
Sure it will.
Apple's more recently updated machines are competitive, and the iMac was
as well after the last round of updates. Why do you believe it won't be
after the next round?
And again, if Apple wanted to sell OS X on cheap computers, there is
absolutely no technical barrier whatsoever to Apple shipping its own
cheap computers.
The word cheap does not mean low quality here. The new computers from
Dell, HP and Sony are of the same or better quality than Macs. They even use
the same components as some of their counterparts.
Most of the low-end machines Macs get compared to these days use cheaper
CPUs. The build quality is also often complete crap, with the
motherboard flexing when you push in connectors, etc.
And how does what you say above address by point that if Apple wanted OS
X on cheap computers, it would be much easier for to make their own
rather than try to get OS X running on everything in the wider Wintel
world?
[snip]
Yes, but it's only in the last couple of years, particularly with the
rise of Google's suite of apps, that this stuff has gone mainstream and
people are talking about such apps as reasonable alternatives to desktop
apps in some markets.
They were talking about this over five years ago. I was there and using
some of those apps. Google jumped on board just like Yahoo and other online
entities.
Heh, who's out of touch now? People were talking about it *twelve* years
ago. It was the entire reason Microsoft went after Netscape, remember?
It was a fringe technology until a couple of years ago, when GMail and
particularly Google Maps got people thinking about the kind of apps it
was possible to write for modern browsers.
[snip]
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