Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Doug Kwan <NOSPAMdoug@doug.cc>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
: Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca> wrote:

:>Supertimer wrote:
:><snip>
:>	I agree with your assertion Apple blew it. The G4 was a great chip for
:>a few months. Now what are they going to do? They can't say our machine
:>is just as fast as a 1GHz chip. The architecture and structure of the G4
:>might bring it close. Unless they come out with a G5 or something a lot
:>of PC owners may include this arguement as to why their machines should
:>be bought rather than Macs.

: There are several things Apple can do.  One possibility is to
: release an x86 compatible MacOS as they had planned to
: do before Rhapsody morphed into MacOS-X.  This would allow
: MacOS to compete in the open.  MacOS is an extremely
: refined OS better than Windows in many ways and I'm sure
: it would make a great splash in the PC world.  At least as well
: as Linux is doing but I predict much better.  PC users do not
: have the same emotional hatred of the MacOS as Mac users
: do of Windows.  I, for one, like MacOS.

I read the book "Apple Confidential". There was a chapter about
a x86 port of the Mac OS. Apple killed it because that would
make Apple a software only company. If you could run MacOS and
applications on cheap PC hardwares, would you still buy expensive
and proprietary hardwares from Apple?
 
-Doug