OS X on x86 machines - Apple Scared
Answer me this - why doesn't apple get os x working on wintel machines.
microsoft is huge and bill is the richest guy - why - software sales.
Is apple scared they will loose hardware sales if they do this - which asks the question: all you mac heads out there love the machine or the software? i personally will still get apple boxes because they are quality made little rippers.
but just think of it - an os that will widely inflitrate the pc market (we all know that windows is pants and that many people will change the software if they can keep their crappy 3 gig machines) ok not crappy just different.
apple can then say - hey you can use our operating system but buy some hardware too which is designed to run it best.
apple can't loose i reckon. so enough rambling from me - what do you guys and gals out there think.
microsoft is huge and bill is the richest guy - why - software sales.
Is apple scared they will loose hardware sales if they do this - which asks the question: all you mac heads out there love the machine or the software? i personally will still get apple boxes because they are quality made little rippers.
but just think of it - an os that will widely inflitrate the pc market (we all know that windows is pants and that many people will change the software if they can keep their crappy 3 gig machines) ok not crappy just different.
apple can then say - hey you can use our operating system but buy some hardware too which is designed to run it best.
apple can't loose i reckon. so enough rambling from me - what do you guys and gals out there think.
Comments
1) Apple is a hardware company. Something like 80 to 90% of their revenue is hardware.
2) Linux is FREE and has yet to take over the world. Why the hell would people pay for another OS? BeOS, OS/2, and many others have tried, and failed miserably. MS cannot be beat at their own game.
Apple will remain a niche player for a while. The vast majority of people just DO NOT CARE what OS they are running, let alone know what it is. They go and ask "does it run this?" and "whats the cheapest model?". Unfortunately, Macs do not always fit in that category.
Also, don't forget that Apple would lose all Classic compatibility, probably some Carbon, and all apps with and assembly tweaks or AltiVec optimizations. Developers already took a HUGE hit with all the retooling it took to fix up their apps in Carbon or Cocoa. Asking developers to have to redo a large portion of their code AGAIN would practically be suicidal.
If anything, Mac on x86 would be used as a last resort.
this has been done to deah...
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switching would be suicide.....
for the person above who posted that pc hardware
is crap...apple parts are the same as pc parts
apart from the cpu/mobo design
pci bus etc etc...
brad is correct...people would give up
software dev on the mac if theres any cpu/arch
change..
os x is good..not great....good unix base though
it wouldnt make a dent on x86 or may...
win2k is solid & works great as does linux & bsd
so unless there was a compelling reason people
wouldny touch os x on x86...assuming apple
had their own overpriced x86 box.....
the low hardware cost & easy availability of parts
would kill them
note. this is not a rant...i use pc's very heavily
& just bought a ti800
He will be losing the support of all his loyal Mac leigons if he allow OS X to run on wondows....
And somehow, OS X on windoz jus doesn't look right with those ugly looking machines......
<strong>Steve Jobs already made alot of Mac users unhappy by charging for .Mac
He will be losing the support of all his loyal Mac leigons if he allow OS X to run on wondows....
And somehow, OS X on windoz jus doesn't look right with those ugly looking machines......
OS X on Windows? How do you figure?
<strong>Apple will remain a niche player for a while. The vast majority of people just DO NOT CARE what OS they are running, let alone know what it is. They go and ask "does it run this?" and "whats the cheapest model?". Unfortunately, Macs do not always fit in that category.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Alas, the truth hurts.
The majority of people accept mediocrity and the status quo.
If Apple licensed OS X to OEMs and used the Microsoft model, those systems would lack the tight software/hardware integration of a Macintosh. Imagine the headache Apple would have trying to get everyone else's hardware to work with OS X. This would severely limit Apple's ability to innovate since they'd spend most of their time writing drivers and certifying hardware.
The Power Computing model doesn't work either. All you end up with in a bunch of shitty Mac boxes that undercut Apple's own sales. These shit boxes also damage the image of the Macintosh as a quality platform.
Maybe there is a way Apple can get OEM licensing to work, but no one's been able to come up with a good plan so far.
Personally, I think the switch campaign is a better way to grab market share. Apple just needs to refine OS X even further and find a suitable replacement for the G4. x86 is not a suitable replacement.
<strong>Sheep come to mind...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sorry, I was bored.
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<strong>If UBB search was working, I'd pull up a list of at least 20 threads on this subject.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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