From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Thu Aug 11 2005 - 11:33:02 PDT
On Jun 13, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Martin Joseph wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:
>>> And think of Intel! Talk about the cat that ate the
>>> canary! Now they can not only dicated how the Windows
>>> OS should operate, but now they can push Apple around
>>> too! woo-hoo! what i would give to be Intel about now!
>>> Ed
>>> web/gadget guru
>>
>> I think you have that relationship backwards.
>> MS dictates more to Intel than Intel does to MS.
>
> MS can't really push that hard... Unless they are planning to move to
> PowerPC (LOL).
>
> I think Apple is going to allow PC users with the know how, to buy OSX
> and install it on there bone stock PC's(someone will figure it out).
> Apple won't support these users, but still they will take there $129.
> That is the way obsolete mac hardware works (ie xpostfacto on older
> macs can run 10.4 we are just unsupported).
>
> Plus some of these technical hacker types will like OSX and as usual
> Apple will continue to design the nicest PC's in existence...
>
> Some of these hacker types will also become Apple hardware customers.
>
> This is a win/win situation for Apple as long as pro Mac users don't
> opt out of Apple hardware (which is unlikely). Powercomputing had some
> success though, so it's a potential worry for them.
>
> MS makes a LOT more $ then Apple, mostly from windows, so SJ appears
> to be having visions of grandeur (delusions?) about this whole setup...
Oh no! I new this day might come, but my idiocy is conclusively
proven.
John Dvorak agrees completely with my above concept!
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1845259,00.asp
Unless we are both right and the odds of that approach nil...
Marty
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