April
5th 2006
Tags: Apple
I just read about Boot Camp and I don’t know what to think. After having a PowerBook for a couple years I can certainly understand why you’d want to run OS X on a PC, but Windows running on a Mac? Maybe a pseudo-emulator like Wine for OS X that would let you run most programs natively would make sense. But to allow you to install Windows XP and have it run natively on the machine?
I’m not surprised that such a thing is possible, just that Apple themselves would release the software necessary to do it. This move doesn’t seem like something Apple (especially with Jobs at the helm) would do, even with the idea that you could lure more switchers this way.
2 Responses to “Wow, what is Apple thinking?”
Psymin on 10 Apr 2006 at 11:02 pm #
I agree with ya to a point Chrissy. I’ve heard so much on the superiority of Mac OS compared to the buggy XP that it blows my mind that Apple would taint their near perfect setup with this world renound crappy OS. Untill I went shopping for applications for Apples. I can almost bet that the Windows compatible apps out numbered the Apple ones 2 or 3 to one. But I honestly think that this will help sell more computers over all. But it will make it harder for their die hard fans to justify spending all the money on the Macs. If you can buy an HP for half the price of a Mac, and have the same OS, why buy the Mac? Cause its trendy? Cause you ain’t cool unless you have that sweet glowing apple on the front of your computer so all the people can see it while your crusing your favorite blogs in the coffee shop sippin’ a frappamochachocoespresiccino. They are going to start dropping loyal fans like flies if they keep this up. Granted their pockets will be much fatter, which is the other side of this double edged sword. It could be the ultimate plan for Apple to take over, and who knows they may all be in on it. Did you get a letter about this plan cause you have a Mac, Chrissy?
More people buying your computer cause you have togglable OS, means more money for the company. More money for the company means more investing in development. More money for development means more development. More development means more games and apps and hardware even. More games, apps and hardware even means more products they can offer to lure more people away to their brand. And more people buying their brand for their brand means they can start taking Windows off their machines. The less machines with Windows means the more computers with Mac OS. The more computers with Mac OS means more money for the company and the circle starts over but with out Microsoft, who is left crying in the corner masturbating using their own tears as lubrication.
Dude, I know you got that letter telling you to hold out because we are going to make Microsoft cry and jerk off and stuff. Scan it and post it so we all can see.
Or possibly they just wanted people to be able to make the choice for themselves. They will see how much smoothly the Mac OS runs and the rest will be blogging history.
Psymin out.
Chris Huseman on 11 Apr 2006 at 7:51 am #
Bob Cringely agrees with me, though for different reasons. If Apple is doing as he suggests and releases a BootCamp product that’ll enable running OS X on generic PC hardware, then it makes a heck of a lot of sense for Apple to care about this. They’d make a lot of money selling their OS and other great software to the 90% of the market they haven’t been able to touch yet.