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Apple's Leopard Strategy to Kill Microsoft and Dell?
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.'"
Apple's problem started back in the 80's when they chose to bundle their hardware witht he OS. The whole reason Intel/AMD based systems have pretty much been the only game in town for persoanl computers is the fact that IBM allowed clones to be made. IBM computers were hella expensive. The clones were not. Guess which machines everyone and their mom went for? Then you have Microsoft who doesn't force vedors to fork over their left testicle and first born to create software for their OS. This combo is what has made Microsoft the jugernaut it is today and Intel/AMD systems so dominant. You can't expect someone with a bunch of software they already know and love to switch to a whole new platform and more than likely be forced to look for other apps to fill the holes left by the apps that simply do not exist in the Apple OS universe. OK let's say that Apple can compete on price. (snickers) Can they compete with available software libraries? The answer is no. :-) I seem many windows apps with ports to Linux and Unix but very few to Apple OS. Why do you suppose that is? Lack of market share. Apple, try as they have in the past, is not mainstream. It's actually loosing ground. The places where it traditionally reigned supreme (schools and Multimedia) are being taken over by Windows boxes. Let's try to remember the only reason Apple is aropund to day is that Microsoft (Bill Gates) saved them. They invested 150 million in Apple. I suspect to avoind even more chrages of being a monopoly. Had that not happened Apple would not be here to day to make these wishful boasts. If Apple really wants to gain marhet share they will have to drasticly change the way they do business.
Mac hardware is proprietary and expensive. If they had MS's market share, Apple would be in an even more monopolistic position than Microsoft. Remind me again why people switching to Macs is a good thing?
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