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Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game
ttom writes "OSWeekly.com looks at Microsoft's promotional strategy and concludes that Microsoft is beating Apple at its own game." From the article: "Apple is to blame for this, at least to some extent. They just had to go and release Boot Camp, didn't they? By the way, please don't take my sarcastic tone as an expression of my dissatisfaction for the product. I think it's great, and I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp. I know that users have bombarded them with requests for officially allowing Windows usage on a Mac, and the fact that they yielded to these requests is interesting because they've emphasized the OS X and Windows experiences as being completely separate for quite some time."
I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp.
If you ask me, the strategy with Boot Camp was an attempt by Apple to go back to the days where they could say, "Look! Our computer is so much more powerful and flexible than a PC, you can even read Windows-formatted floppies on our computer, but you can't read Mac formatted floppies on a Windows machine!"
Not that that was ever much of anything but a flawed argument, based around, I imagine Apple's licensing policy for HFS...but Apple has only a handful of things that they use to prove their superiority over Windows (Less Crashes, More Secure Against Viruses, more "artsy fartsy", etc.), each of which grows less truthful over time. When was the last time your XP box crashed? Mine hasn't in months. And the only reason OSX is more secure is because of its significantly smaller user-base. If OSX had 90% of the market, you can be sure there would be many more OSX-based attacks out there.
'course, I'm typing this right now on my iBook...
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
I look at all those pictures, and the remarks about "by artists" and such. I even see a twin lens reflex camera. Yet I can't help but think that for all your trollish remarks, not one of them is even remotely a decent photograph. By and for artists, indeed.
The PCs I build are less expensive, more powerful, and more stable...blah blah blah
The same is true for any OEM, dumbass. You're comparing Apples to oranges here.