Re: Linux Dealt a DEATH BLOW by Apple !!!!!!!

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/05 

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:10:21 -0400

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:34:41 -0700, Raggs wrote:

> Goodbye desktop Linux, your days are numbered as Apple moves to Intel
> for chips.
> FINALLY we Intel users will have a quality Unix Desktop System to run.
> OSX on Intel kind of makes Linux and it's hacked together, half done,
> beta crap software irrelevent.
> No loss.
>
> Good Riddence Linux!

If it's a death blow it's by suicide bombing. Apple better have another
iPod up their sleeves if they are going to survive the next 12 months.
They won't have their x86 boxes for another year, in the mean time the
sales of the current Macs are going to plunge. If they survive long enough
to actually ship the new kit there isn't going to be much software on it
except for open source, which is available on Linux boxes so who needs an
Apple, and Apple's own software. The commercial software vendors are going
to take this as an opportunity to drop Mac support altogether. The Mac's
market share is so tiny at this point that there is no point in continuing
to support it. When Apple went from the 68K to the PPC they had a 14%
market share so it was still worthwhile for software vendors to make the
transition. When they went for OS9 to OS10 they only had a 4% market share
and a large percentage of the vendors didn't bother to make the
transition. Steve Jobs was able to do some arm twisting and get some high
profile vendors to change their minds but now the Mac only has a 2%
share so the argument for dropping it is even better. In 12 months the
Mac's share will be 1/2% at best, no vendor is going to want to support it
no matter how loud Steve Jobs screams.
 

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