Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux

Deep Fried Geekboy writes "John C. Dvorak is pretty quick off the blocks with a response to the news that Apple intend to switch to Intel processors. Thankfully, he doesn't gloat about having called this one correctly, but says that the move is likely to hurt Linux, as OSS developers increasingly target the Mac. Since it now turns out that Dvorak was apparently not smoking crack when he predicted the Apple move, could he be right on this one too?"

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Re:More good than harm.

[tigersha]

I wish you Slashdot haters would cut the crap. XP Home sure as shit does not cose 300 Dollars. It costs less than Tiger. In fact, Xp Home is not much more expensive than suse Linux.

dvorak

[Gillious]

dvorak is a boob.

Apple not ready for World Dominance

[synthespian]

If this story about not allowing people to run MacOS on non-Apple hardware is really true, this will mean that, apparently, Apple is chronically disabled in its capabilites for marketing strategies and will never get it right.
Just look at the recent developments: first, they release the MacMini. Now, it'll adopt Intel chips - which translates as - don't buy a MacMini, because Mac OS X will run on Intel. But look closer: no, you won't be able to install it on standard hardware, only Apple hardware.
How fucked-up can your World Dominance strategy get?
Steve Jobs only seems to target the North-American and the European markets. He doesn't really get it that the PC-clone markets are everywhere, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and that in all those fringe markets, as well as all the important ones, there's a Windows OS in a PC-clone.
Apple will, once again, miss a window of opportunity. Apple just never learns, it always wants to be the sofisticated desert for the rich people of Suburbia, never the staple item for the masses, sitting on filthy shops in São Paulo or Beijing. Always the dame, never the fun-giving whore. Steve Jobs is clueless...