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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. The author... by ratboot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't forget that the author is Rob Enderle, who tends to defend Microsoft and SCO with all his heart and bitches regularly on Apple and Linux... Do a quick Google on him...

  2. Re:Sounds good until... by lerxstz · · Score: 5, Informative

    "I haven't seen Jaguar, yet"

    Jaguar?? I presume you meant to say "Leopard"

    "I do know watching a 640x480 WMV on OSX is like upsampling a 160x120 video into 1080 high-def- UGLY"

    Not at all. A 640x480 wmv file on windows has the same resolution as on OS X. They play fine with the flip4mac plug-in for quicktime. VLC can handle a lot of them too.

    --
    I chose to end my comments, not with a rim shot, but a long decaying F#7sus4
  3. More nonsense from Enderle by phillymjs · · Score: 5, Informative

    FTFA:
    "However, Steve Jobs is the master of being your best buddy while planning to stab you in the back. His biographies are filled with stories that do more than suggest that if he wants what you have, you'd better grab it and run for the hills."

    Please. History is littered with the corpses of companies with which Microsoft formed a "strategic partnership"-- The MS people stick around and play nice for a while, then one day the other company gets notified that Microsoft wants to go in another direction so the partnership is over. Then a couple months later Microsoft unveils a competing product and kills the company with which they partnered.

    The best historical example I can think of is Go Corp in the late 80s/early 90s-- Microsoft partnered with them, stole their stuff and created Pen Windows to crush them. You can get accounts of it from both sides if you read these two books. However, Microsoft is doing the exact same thing right now: They are desperate to take marketshare from iPod/iTunes. To that end, their partnerships to make portable players and sell music under the "PlaysForSure" moniker have been miserable failures-- so now, they are screwing their partners and rolling their own solution in-house, Zune, which is stated incompatible with all the PlaysForSure stuff.

    ~Philly

  4. Don't bother reading article - it's by Enderle by CCW · · Score: 5, Informative

    Could you please flag articles by this unmitigated idiot so I don't wast the click. Reading his drivel is not worth anybodys time.

  5. Parent Post Is Pure FUD by thedbp · · Score: 5, Informative

    WMV's look identical on the Mac as they do on Windows. Its the exact same file. They can be played through QuickTime using Flip4Mac, VLC, or mplayer without problems.

    WMV and Real are just as good on the Mac as they are in Windows.

    For proof that this post is rubbish, look at the fact that the poster refers to "Jaguar" That was the code name for 10.2. That was many years ago.

    Debunked.