Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:30:35 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <3B12994B.7C9E0674@pitt.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105280801390.142-100000@molly.telia.com>
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I think they are trying hard to solve all they problems with a magic wand, ignoring how they got into that situation in the first place. The idea is making Windows OS and office fully integrated in a way that you will not be able to work without paying them monthly fees. Actually, more than the expected revenue, one of the key factors to understand is the trial: they want to make a division impossible or perhaps irrelevant. What I think is broken in their strategy is that people don't want computers only to be on the Internet, and there's where Apple may shine. Even with all these nonsense critics Apple has received, it is clear (for me) that the "Opensource community" (if such a beast exists) is embracing Apple. Most of the projects out there are pushing ports to MacOS X: Mozilla, Staroffice, OpenAFS, UDI and there's already Qt. I think if the BSDs hang together with Apple we could see many benefits... My forecast: 1) Linux PPC will be completely out of the markey by both Mac OS X and the native BSDs (which have been consistently server oriented up till now but will become somewhat better desktops). 2) Darwin for Intel ushered by the BSDs will gain more strength. 3) Growing interest opens the door for Mac OS X on Intel (highly unexpected but the possible revenue might be high enough). 4) Mac OS X jumps from 20% to 40% while Microsoft is trying to clean their act from the dot net fiasco. A time frame is tough...maybe 5 years, maybe more :). Pedro. Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > FWIW, I also > > think Apple has a good chance now that MS is screwing up with their > > .net strategy. > > Speaking of which, isn't "dot net" the perfect example of Microsoft > extending its influence of the desktop to the server market? While the > whole concept seems ludicrous to me, all of the sudden everyone is talking > about Soap, C# and .net (and I still have nightmares about the pointy > haired bosses sending me off on a C# bootcamp ;) > > -Fredrik > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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