Steve is playing with your brain all the time, right?
Steve told us the G5 was way faster than any Intel machine, right?
Steve told us OSX is better than Windows, right?
So why is Steve promoting dual booting Macs, right now?
Is it because some programs will run better under Windows than under OSX?
Is it that Steve is afraid some people don’t like OSX?
Is Steve afraid that reprogramming software, which is needed for Intel Macs, isn’t an option for all companies?
I am not sure, but I do know that the things he said in the past are completely the opposite of what he’s saying thesedays.
Anyway it really is true: Apple – Boot Camp:
Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.
It might be a smart move for Apple, but still: how can I trust this company? Don’t get me wrong, I can’t trust Microsoft either. So, I do think both companies have mislet their own customers by telling lies. And I don’t like that. But probably these companies don’t feel they are lying, because they call this marketing. My opinion: bad marketing!
06/04/2006 @ 11:53 am
I think that having religious faith or religious doubt in software companies or hardware companies (or, for that matter, indie musicians, the cute clerk at the coffee shop, or even the wonderful dog I got from the shelter) is a mistake, because people, companies, and even noble non-profits do the quirkiest things.
This is, to me, a classic case in which marketing jargon got in the way of the obvious answer for any company. Functionality, compatibility, uinversality, and ease of access–those are the future, no matter how much Apple tries to talk about MacIntosh users or iPod exclusivity. More open sourcing is the future no matter how much Microsoft tries to charge for windows or Word.
The technology, as it so often does, outstrips the jargon–and makes companies like Apple–and even Microsoft–live freer, or die.
06/04/2006 @ 3:45 pm
From what I have read online it seems that this move is mostly target towards the education market. Apple used to be the king of the education field but Dell has slowly erroded that position. Now schools instead of having to fill two computer labs, one with PC’s and perhaps one with Macs, they can now simply fill one lab with macs.
10/04/2006 @ 12:44 am
Nah, it’s just another marketing gimmick. Mac users won’t use it, and PC switchers will feel it gives them security – and then they won’t use it either.