And all the novel features in Vista are slowly disappearing-the system now will just have some 'pretty eye candy' and a few security improvements. Now we see it's being pushed back to 2007. The other big factor here is Vista Microsoft was supposed to ship in 2004. in iPhoto), and with tons of other amazing features and applications Microsoft would wet its pants over if they had an opportunity to run them on Windows. But the Mac offers something more the Mac comes with OS X, with iLife (for making music in Garageband, movies in iMovie, DVDs in iDVD, photo books and slideshows, etc. and most consumers will take price over quality any day. If someone were to buy a Mac to only run Windows, that person would be insane-a Mac costs a pretty penny (for a reason-Apple's hardware is top-of-the-line), and it would be silly because you can usually get a PC configured with the same specifications (but not the same level of customer satisfaction as Apple has) for a lower cost.
Apple's plan is to get a greater amount of market share by letting Windows users 'test the water' on their new Macs.
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The only two things holding Mac OS X back from gaining large amounts of market share are mainstream games (which Microsoft has a stranglehold on) and certain proprietary programs that developers have only made for Windows.Īpple's 'Boot Camp' allows people who want to use the Mac OS (which many people want to do) and also be able to boot into the Windows OS that they have to for some reason or another. and there are a few disabled features if you run Windows (like the video camera and the cool media software.Īpple makes Mac OS X, and it is, indisputably, the best consumer OS in the world.
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Notice how Apple allows people to install Windows on their Macs, but they do not provide it. we want a larger market share, so let's go ahead and just do what Microsoft is doing, since we can't keep up.' " The person who emailed me also asked, "Jeff, if you're a Mac person, why don't you see this as selling out to 'The Man'?" To his email, I responded:īecause that's not Apple's strategy. Recently I recieved an email saying "It seems to me that Mac's are going through a process of self-discovery, something along the lines of, 'Gee.
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