Apple to dump OS/X for Windows?

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: n7
Not gonna happen.

I think it's more likely that Apple eventually wakes up, smells the bacon, & starts to sell OS/X for use on PCs

aren't they already moving that direction by using the intel chip now?

 

[IGBT]

..apple's making a ton of money off gadget audio devices. it's become the easy buck for them. Even their stock holders are uncomfortable. There supposed to be a computer company. Not a gadget audio company. And like all popular gadgets of the day.. there's always a new one over the horizon. Weather they dump os/x or not will depend on weather they still want to be a computer company or a gadget audio company. Mabe apple will merge with sharper image. :Q

 

[Markbnj]

Apple has spent billions of dollars and invested so much time to build a powerful and reliable OS, why dump it?[\q]

And all that investment is worth absolutely squat when the next dev cycle comes around.

 

[ivwshane]

I think this article puts it much better than Dvorak.

http://www.overclockers.com/tips00924/

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: magomago
if they use windows...what the heck seperates them from other laptops? Just a design...not sure if I would pay a 700 markup for a white laptop and an apple logo

Many would

 

[tuteja1986]

lol :! you guys take him to seriously :! i have been listening To twit podcasting and the guy is alright :!

http://thisweekintech.com/
episode 42 4min 20sec onwards
epsiode 43 7min 30sec onwards
the dude isn't a fruite cake :! its all the mac users that are :! ohh god he posted article out of spite and so many mac user took it seriously. well listen to his view points before you start calling him all nasty words like retard/idiot :!

 

[Nothinman]

lol :! you guys take him to seriously :! i have been listening To twit podcasting and the guy is alright :!

Seems appropriate that they named the podcast 'twit'...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Cerb
Why would NeXT be at all useful? IMO, if they change the underlying bits, they should go with straight-up FreeBSD. All the goodness of a nice ABI, speed, comparable security to OS X now--or Linux--and they don't have to give up source code.

If they went with NetBSD they'd get more stability, faster software, and be able to change platforms monthly.