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If the Mac executives had any sense, they'd be the Porsche (which has consistently produced per car profit margins way above competitors).
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With casual, incidental adoption of Macintosh software on Windows and an emergence of Windows OS on a Mac, well we might start to see people picking up Mac as a luxury brand. Why would I want to pay twice as much for a Mac, and spend more time learning on it just for the cool factor? I wouldn't. The OS and GUI are very foreign to Windows users and require a commitment that many, well most people are unwilling to learn.
Whether Macs are better in an objective sense or not is really irrelevant, they are perceived as the cooler, bohemian choice. With the adoption of Intel and the emergence of dual boot on the Mac, they are where they should have arguably been twenty years ago. It is a very developer and fanboy application.īut, I do see this as a small step towards Apple moving away from being a packaged experience. As stated above it would appeal mainly to Mac users that must use Windows occasionally and developers for iPhone related apps. I don't think anyone would, all things being equal, convert to Safari from Firefox (or even the latest IE incarnation). Posted by polyhedron at 5:26 PM on June 11, 2007
were available on Windows, and I suspect GarageBand has a similar effect on iMac/MacBook sales) Apple wouldn't sell half the Mac Pros they do if FCP, etc. (and I wouldn't expect too much of Apple's software to make its way to Windows, unless they release a Nouveau YellowBox. If enough people complain and ask for it now, maybe we can get a well-documented, functional plugin interface in Safari 4? And an incredibly brilliant business move, this whole iPhone/Safari thing.
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Who needs to pay much bucks when you can code to the standard and have predictable results? Safari on Windows, even if it is snuck in with every iPod/iTunes download, will be a good thing.
Web developers would probably lose business. I tried picking up CSS (having not made a webpage since before the Star Wars re-releases around 1997) and was astounded at how seriously fucked the different browsers' CSS implementations are. More diversity in the browser market will make standards compliance essential. I for one, am happy to have more rendering engines around. Posted by spiderwire at 12:52 PM on June 11, 2007Įspecially fast, standards compliant, open source options?įor all you whiners and complainers: Is there no benefit to having more competition in the browser market?
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It's ironic that Microsoft's business was built on kicking IBM's proprietary system out from under them, and that lack of control over the hardware has turned into a massive liability that Apple (who, with IBM, suffered most from from the flood of PC clones Microsoft enabled) is exploiting that vulnerability to the hilt. I'd bet that makes all the difference for turnaround times in OS development.
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Keeping control of the OS-platform tie has been so critical to Apple, too it avoids a whole ton of the problems that Windows has, especially with driver compatibility and legacy support. It ups the incentive to develop in the OSX environment, because you can use all the app hooks (to say nothing of the UNIX base, XCode, etc), which in turn will lead to more native OSX apps, which is OSX's most major weakness right now. From a developer's perspective, this is brilliant. It seems like their strategy is to make their software cross-platform but to keep very close control of their OS and platform. If you think about it, it doesn't make too much sense for apple to tie their products to the Mac.īingo. Posted by humblepigeon at 12:51 PM on June 11, 2007 I'd hoped to see that "use a webpage as a widget" thing that's supposed to be coming in Leopard, but I guess that I will actually have to wait for Leopard. They seem to have fixed that annoying 'feature' whereby video in a background window is jerky (I read about that on one of the developer's blogs). Other than that, I can't see anything major. You can now merge all Safari windows into one (quite cool because the page doesn't have to reload once integrated-it just hops across). The history menu now lets you reopen a previously closed window. New features that I've found: You can click and drag to reorder tabs, and move tabs from window to window. Browsing is as fast as it's always been and is better than Firefox, although only by a negligible amount. Text scrolling seems somehow smoother than previously. One thing missed from this posting is that Mac users now have a beta of Safari 3 to play with (current version is 2.x).
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