Interesting Conversation with Apple Store employee
I was at the mall with some friends tonight so of course I went into the Apple Store for a little while. I asked one of the employees if he knew how long after MWSF the new stuff would be in. He told me he had no idea. Then we got into a conversation about what we thought was going to come out on Monday. He said he was hoping for something new and huge, especially because of all the stuff at apple.com since Monday, but was prepared to be dissapointed (not his exact words, but it's what he meant). Then he mentioned the idea of having a Mac that also ran Windows (instead of OS X on Intel). He said the negative of that would be that customers in the store would see it as a rival OS to the Mac OS but he thinks it'd be a good idea.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
Comments
SdC
<strong>Bad idea.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what I thought too.
I won't lock it... i imagine it will sink just as fast without being locked....
-robo
<strong>I started the thread to see what people had to think about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Specifically what we think about the kid saying it or the idea at all? I think its a horrible idea.
Jobs has said many times "we are the only ones left who make the whole widget". Would they develop iTunes, iDVD, iMovie etc etc for Windows? No.
OS X will not be ported to Windows and Windows will not be ported to the Macintosh. IMHO
Now....running Windows programs on OS X.....that I'd like to see
What apple store were you at? I went to my first apple store in Albany today. I was impressed. Anyway, I asked what was being released on Monday and they told me (as I expected) that they didn't know. Where is Nanuet?
<strong>Now....running Windows programs on OS X.....that I'd like to see </strong><hr></blockquote>
No you wouldn't. If that happened, why would people develop for OS X when they could just use Windows?? There goes all apps for OSX and you may as well buy a PC..
-Paul
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No you wouldn't. If that happened, why would people develop for OS X when they could just use Windows?? There goes all apps for OSX and you may as well buy a PC..
-Paul</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, the fact that OS X is not Windows is a good reason. It's at least 10x better to use (my own unscientific estimate) and at least as stable and more useful (it's a UNIX, afterall). Would people see that? If Apple did the advertising right, so that would be a no unfortunately.
It would be neat if Apple released a Cocoa environment for Windows and/or Linux, though! Carbon would just plain never be possible, but Cocoa would be great! It's a much better API than Windows has ever had, plus it would cause a surge in Cocoa development! However, developers would still have to compile for 2 platforms, and the substandard software thing would still be applicable (especially the interface would suffer)... So then again, maybe not. I digress.
That guy is what we call "dum."
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No you wouldn't. If that happened, why would people develop for OS X when they could just use Windows?? There goes all apps for OSX and you may as well buy a PC..
-Paul</strong><hr></blockquote>
Using the same logic, why would they port OSX to x86? Apple would lose most of its future hardware sales. Why buy a mac when you can have both on one machine by buying a Dell, Compaq, etc.?
Anyway, this was to say that there was a version of WinNT for PPC many years ago... so the possibility of Windoze on PPC isn't totally far fetched. Especially now that WinXP is based on NT kernel.
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No you wouldn't. If that happened, why would people develop for OS X when they could just use Windows?? There goes all apps for OSX and you may as well buy a PC..
-Paul</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, I would. Why would anyone continue development for classic when it runs like crap in X? I thought the same logic would apply for Windows in X. Windows wouldn't run so great either but it would ease the transition to OS X from Windows for some people.....but whats the point anyway, just get Virtual PC.
<strong>I think he was more suggesting WIndows compatibility</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what you would think, but he wasn't just talking about compatibility. He said have Windows side by side with either OS 9 or X.
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but whats the point anyway, just get Virtual PC.</strong><hr></blockquote>
He said that Virtual PC isn't that great. Then he said that they sell it at the Apple Store but they don't really tell people about it.
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He said that Virtual PC isn't that great. Then he said that they sell it at the Apple Store but they don't really tell people about it.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah I know, I tried to buy it for my Father-in-law at the Grand Opening but they only had version 4. I asked for 5 and they didn't even know it existed yet.