luck777jojo
5th September 2006, 08:29
An interesting article I found today on OS Weekly talks about how Apple has actually helped Microsoft gain a bit more market share. It all comes down to boot camp and the ability to run windows on an Intel based Mac.
After reading the article it almost seems as if Apple’s original plan is backfiring at the moment. Sure perhaps it will help the out in the long run but right now it doesn’t seem like that’s happening.
A lot of Mac users have been very happy to be running windows on their Macs now, and while in the past every person who switched over from Windows-based PCs to a Mac took the leap to an Apple OS as well, right now most people switching are keeping their Windows OS and just changing the hardware.
One of the biggest problems pointed out in the article is how Apple is not gaining as much market share with their OS as they would have hoped and the fact that they’re keeping it Mac only is hurting them a lot in the long run.
I have to agree with that point, perhaps I won’t switch over from my Linux/Windows combo to OS X anytime soon (even if an official release for general, non-apple hardware was available) but I might have added it to one of the OS I use, maybe for when I edit videos, or play around with Photoshop. Of course Windows would remain my gaming OS of choice and Linux would remain my general OS (for downloading pr0… erm... stuff).
At the same time I understand why Apple doesn’t want to release their OS for non-apple hardware from a technical point of view. I mean I completely understand that if they did release OS X for the general public it would be having compatibility issues left and right as well as crashing as much (if not more) than Windows XP.
Apple has it a lot easier only releasing their OS to apple based hardware; they don’t have to worry about some company releasing a new video card which may cause hardware conflicts or the multitude of different CPU, RAM, and motherboard combinations available for the rest of us non-apple users. Every hardware update they know about because they make it, so they make sure that compatibility is good, everything works, and nothing crashes.
Neither Windows nor Linux/BSD have that “advantage” they are not making sue that all hardware works fine, they cannot test all hardware, they don’t have a monopoly in the hardware released for the machines that use those operating systems.
Link to article (http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2320&Itemid=449)
After reading the article it almost seems as if Apple’s original plan is backfiring at the moment. Sure perhaps it will help the out in the long run but right now it doesn’t seem like that’s happening.
A lot of Mac users have been very happy to be running windows on their Macs now, and while in the past every person who switched over from Windows-based PCs to a Mac took the leap to an Apple OS as well, right now most people switching are keeping their Windows OS and just changing the hardware.
One of the biggest problems pointed out in the article is how Apple is not gaining as much market share with their OS as they would have hoped and the fact that they’re keeping it Mac only is hurting them a lot in the long run.
I have to agree with that point, perhaps I won’t switch over from my Linux/Windows combo to OS X anytime soon (even if an official release for general, non-apple hardware was available) but I might have added it to one of the OS I use, maybe for when I edit videos, or play around with Photoshop. Of course Windows would remain my gaming OS of choice and Linux would remain my general OS (for downloading pr0… erm... stuff).
At the same time I understand why Apple doesn’t want to release their OS for non-apple hardware from a technical point of view. I mean I completely understand that if they did release OS X for the general public it would be having compatibility issues left and right as well as crashing as much (if not more) than Windows XP.
Apple has it a lot easier only releasing their OS to apple based hardware; they don’t have to worry about some company releasing a new video card which may cause hardware conflicts or the multitude of different CPU, RAM, and motherboard combinations available for the rest of us non-apple users. Every hardware update they know about because they make it, so they make sure that compatibility is good, everything works, and nothing crashes.
Neither Windows nor Linux/BSD have that “advantage” they are not making sue that all hardware works fine, they cannot test all hardware, they don’t have a monopoly in the hardware released for the machines that use those operating systems.
Link to article (http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2320&Itemid=449)