Apple's a biz-ness,
that's the whole point of Apple.
The biz-ness world's strange . . .
Posted on 02/19/2006 2:38:01 PM PST by theFIRMbss
Will Apple adopt Windows?
By Jack Schofield / Apple/ Windows 01:15pm
"The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I'm convinced he may be right. This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing," writes PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak.
Dvorak predicted Apple moving to Intel chips before that happened, but ...
Way back then, Apple was trying to recover from its inability to write a proper desktop operating system and was shopping for one. The front runner was Be's BeOS, created under the direction of Jean-Louis Gassee after he left Apple to do it right*. But NT was also considered ...
... * Technically, Be OS was "the Amiga done right" but one of Gassee's incentives was dumping the historical crud in Mac OS.
(Charles Arthur adds: the Dvorak piece has been lampooned rather nicely by The Apple Blog, which is not - one might as well mention - anything to do with Apple ...)
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.guardian.co.uk ...
LOL! No way!
Well, MS has been "perfecting" Windows for many, many years. When the job is finally done, then maybe Apple will adopt. Maybe another 10-20 years.
Not me. My workstations run either Linux or Solaris.
At least OS-X is BSD with frosting.
seperately, as a PC user, I admire the way the Mac does its desktop. As far as I'm concerned, the artsy fartsy interface is the best thing Apple has going for it.
It's an absurd notion.
The whole point of Apple--at least since their main competition started to be on the software level--was always the superior OS, the hardware arm was just a matter of having a 'vertical trust' to be able to withstand pressure from MS's horizonatal trust strategy. (Of course, it's easy to forget that in the early days, the days of the 'why 1984 won't be like 1984' Superbowl ad, Apple's main competition was at the hardware level--they were the 'David' fighting IBM's 'Goliath'.)
They made one switch already--making OS X a MacOS style GUI built on the Free BDS core (a dialect of UNIX)--but that was to make an even better OS.
Putting Windows on a Mac is like retrofitting a '67 Pontiac dashboard into a 2006 5-series Bimmer.
Will Microsoft Adopt Darwin?
By Chris Holland in Commentary
The idea that Microsoft would ditch its own OS for the key underlying technology that powers Apple’s flagship operating system came to me in a most auspicious e-mail from a dear friend of mine, Dr. Arnold E. Handy, a well-regarded professor of gynecology who wrote me convinced the process had already begun . . .
[The Apple Blog]
Burn the Blasphemer! Burn the Witch!
Anyone remember "B"? An OS to challenge Linux or Windows or something like that?
And then there was Jobs's other computer/OS. Cube? Square?
My desktops at work run Linux, and at home I've got "BSD with frosting".
(Of course, as a category theorist, I've got a guild loyalty to Free BSD--the core was written by a categorist who went the CS route.)
Satire?
Apple's a biz-ness,
that's the whole point of Apple.
The biz-ness world's strange . . .
You think the interface is smoove; you should set up the wireless network!
I think its more likely that Apple will begin selling computers with both operating systems on them, luring consumers into a side by side comparison where anybody with half a brain would, within a few months, realize how much better Mac OS X is and delete Windows.
*.BSD are very good OSs.
NeXT!?
*Snicker*
The wife was looking at consumer ratings of laptops. The old model Apples had very high ratings, while the new ones with Intel parts were rated no better than mid level wintel laptops.
It's a little premature for that, since they've barely shipped.
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