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Apple's Leopard Strategy to Kill Microsoft and Dell?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the aiming-high dept.

RX8 writes "A Digital Trends article suggests that Apple's Leopard agenda is to get Windows users to use Apple hardware then convert them to the Apple camp and that Apple will also be directly targeting Dell by offering a better experience when it comes to media and related tasks. Lastly, they suggest that Steve Jobs held back on showing more Leopard features so people would not get too excited and stop buying in 2006. 'If you get too excited about what is supposed to be an incredibly amazing product you simply won't buy a new Apple this year.'"

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  1. Doh! by sugapablo · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I just purchased my first Mac (MacBook, black) and now you tell me it'll be obselete 2 weeks after I just bought it?

    Too bad the warranty doesn't cover that!

    --
    Sugapablo
  2. I can see the perfect Ad... :) by SubliminalVortex · · Score: 2, Funny

    'If you get too excited about what is supposed to be an incredibly amazing product you simply won't buy a new Apple this year.'

    It really is very delicious Eve, I promise you, after you take a byte, well, just a nybble perhaps, you'll know everything about We . Then you'll know everything about good and evil and never be allowed into the garden again. We will make sure the angels put up some fiery walls so you cannot enter again.

    There are Apples and oranges and pears and plums lying around, just beware of the Micro- scopically-soft ones, they may give you a tummy-ache.

  3. Enderle, briliant as ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, uhm, Apple is, uhm, trying to compete, uhm, with, uhm,their competitors.

    Thanks a lot for this insightful article Mr. Enderle....

  4. No, no....not quite yet by gearmonger · · Score: 5, Funny
    Leopard isn't designed to kill Microsoft or Dell.

    That's the job of Puma.

    Then Ocelot will take out HP.

    Marmoset, once released, will end IBM.

    Finally, Mr. Whiskers Boddington (the name of Jobs' childhood cat) will make Google irrelevant.

    Then we'll get those full-screen iPods everyone's been wanting. wheeee

  5. Re:Missed the Memo by SubliminalVortex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, Alienware bought Dell. Get real. :)

  6. Re:Why Apple will never kill Dell by TomHandy · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a Corolla owner, I don't appreciate the comparison between my car and a Dell...:)

  7. Re:Steve, you want my business? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So you get a faster clock, but less performance -- and the Mac can be upgraded to new chips whereas the PC is using an end-of-life architecture and a retarded version of Windows.

    You mean there are other versions of Windows that aren't retarded? That's news to me...