Will Apple try to go into the operating system business against Windows? When I first heard about Panther years ago, I thought , great finally Jobs might try to take OSX head to head against Windoz. That did not happen of course . But when I read this article (below) my ideas about this surfaced again. Why not try OSX on PC and show PC people what an opreating system can really do?
the argument "The problem is that the personal computing market has already demonstrated that users want a choice of hardware at least as much as they want a choice of software." I don't thing that is exactly right though. People are just or were used to DOS or Windoz and don't want to change because they are comforable with whatever they have no matter how crummy it is. Case in point --> windows.
Most people want cheap. They pay for it, many times in the long run. But considering that many people have software that Apple can't run (I have personally not found many so I really don't care and many Mac users don't either), they have to go with a PC. Too many people are comfortable, cater to and like that there is a business for taking care, fixing and working on all sorts of problems related to the use of Windows and PCs. And we are not just talking about the fact that more viruses can invade the PCs.
Yeah OSX Tiger and Leopard are more elegant. They are not bloated. They are constantly updated. They look beautiful and they work nicely. But would Apple let PCs use OSX. Many people have gotten used to iTunes, iPod, trying Safari (I personally do not like it at all and prefer Firefox). But if given the choice, some people might try it, switch OS and do more with Macs either side the Apple side or the PC side.
http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17450&Itemid=1023&mosmsg=Thanks+for+your+vote%21
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