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Apple to 'Switch' to Windows?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-all-scoffed-at-an-intel-move-too dept.

JFlex writes "PC Mags writer John C. Dvorak discusses the idea that Apple may dump OS X and 'switch' to running Windows in a recent column: "The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I'm convinced he may be right. This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing.""

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  1. no way by ylsul · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't see this ever happening

  2. Nothing To See Here by mpapet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dvorak has to get off the halucinogens.

    This article is not deserving of a /.ing. Just move right along.

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  3. dumbass by tf23 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This has got to be one of stupidest things I've heard in a while. Was Dvorak that desperate for material to fill his column?

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  4. In other news.... by ericdano · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, Steve Jobs is going to wear shorts and a hawaiian shirt next Keynote. Steve Balmer is going to lose 100 lbs. Rob Glaser is going to lose 300lbs. Oh, and the color Blue decided it wants to be Red now.

    Seriously, this article makes no sense. Dvorak is gasping at straws yet again.

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  5. yep.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apple switching to Windows would kill them. The only thing Apple ever had going for them (except style), is OSX is a damn good OS. By giving it up they'll die a quick death as they get absorbed into MS in the PC market.

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  6. Not gonna happen. by rubberbando · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now that they are on the Intel platform, if they switched to Windows, they would become just another Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. Also, all of their loyal customers and developers would probably just bail on them for doing so. Not a very good business plan.

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  7. Re:Dvorak: wrong, again. by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was about to [mentally] mod this troll, but suddenly I got the joke. :)

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