Originally posted by: CrimsonChaos
Originally posted by: Pariah
Yeah, just seems odd that he'd be trying to make yet another NeXT line of computers. What is the big appeal to Macintosh now that it'll have typical PC hardware and UNIX OS? I always thought Mac was trying to be "proprietary" in all of their products.
He's not. With NeXT he had to create a market and the software. With Apple, he already has the software that people want and a market with a loyal fanbase. Now he is trying to lower the prices and bring it more mainstream. This whole transition thing is being blown way out of proportion. If this goes the way Jobs wants it to, the changes should be completely transparent to the user. It's still going to be the same stylish Apple computer, with the same Apple software, except now it will have a different CPU in it. Big deal. This could have major impacts on the business side for Apple and Intel, but to the consumer it shouldn't mean anything at all unless you're a fanboy of either side who wants to troll all day about which side is better.
If the Apple software is the only difference, then why doesn't Apple just become solely a software vendor?
Why pedal a computer with typical PC parts off as an "Apple" computer, just because it's "stylish" (by the way, Alienware does this too). Why pedal UNIX off as an Apple OS just because of a "stylish" interface?
Apple is pretty much taking typical hardware and a typical OS, making things look pretty, locking everything up and then calling it "Apple". Hey, at least they finally realized their old hardware and old OS were inferior products. The fact is, this IS the same as the NeXT product line that failed years ago. Of course, some of the circumstances are different. But the end-product is the same.