insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
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Re: Boo F-in Hoo
said by BellBoy  :What are they afraid of...Apple? They should be... They can't be afraid of a company that tells people to buy a mac because it runs windows. Apple no longer is competing with Microsoft, they are helping. If someone buys a mac and installs windows on it, microsoft wins. Especially if they pay retail for it.
If anything it appears that Apple is just phasing out the MacOS by getting people on a computer that runs windows. |
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BellBoy
Obama racist? Then Bush is Hitler.
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| said by insomniac84 :said by BellBoy :What are they afraid of...Apple? They should be... They can't be afraid of a company that tells people to buy a mac because it runs windows. Apple no longer is competing with Microsoft, they are helping. If someone buys a mac and installs windows on it, microsoft wins. Especially if they pay retail for it. If anything it appears that Apple is just phasing out the MacOS by getting people on a computer that runs windows. I'm not sure where your logic is going with that because M$ has already won. The market share numbers have been in their favor for years now. But...the numbers are starting to turn...
What Apple is doing, rather smartly I'd say, is to give people another alternative. A much more efficient, more attractive, yet less buggy and prone to attack alternative. Apple is a hardware company more than they are a software company. It's to their benefit to get people to take a look at a better OS if that will make them hardware customers. IMO, the OS money is gravy to them when they can get a customer in a store to buy a computer and perhaps an iPod, and perhaps XXXX (whatever).
I highly doubt that the Mac OS will be phased out anytime soon in favor of Windows...hey, but it's Apple and we didn't see the Intel transition coming either.
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
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said by insomniac84 :said by BellBoy :What are they afraid of...Apple? They should be... They can't be afraid of a company that tells people to buy a mac because it runs windows. Apple no longer is competing with Microsoft, they are helping. If someone buys a mac and installs windows on it, microsoft wins. Especially if they pay retail for it. If anything it appears that Apple is just phasing out the MacOS by getting people on a computer that runs windows. I actually know of several dozen people the got Macs in the last few months with the notion of running Windows either using Boot Camp or under Parallels.
All but two didn't bother because they found out that they could do everything they wanted in MacOSX. The two that installed Windows (both used Parallels) was to run one program that wasn't available for the Mac that they needed.
Microsoft is slowly loosing to people like these and they are convincing others.
Apple created Boot Camp to entice Windows Users on the fence about getting a Mac.
Apple will never get rid of their OS and if you actually used one you'd know why. |
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AnonProxy
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ß | Mac won't get rid of it's OS because it's the highest margin product they make. Something has got to make up for the money they lose on every iPod. |
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cableties
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| Incorrect. Apple's hardware sales is their greatest margin for profit.
Recall that iLife is not free. Prior, iPhoto, itunes, iMovie HD were free. Unless you purchase a new mac, you have to buy iLife for upgrade.
When Apple serializes MAC OS X, then will you understand, nothing is free.
Apple's Widgets phone home. Just use Lil' snitch and block.
I don't mind WGA, but I'd like to know what ports to close that it and other "sneakies" are using. |
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