BellBoy
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Re: Boo F-in Hoo
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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