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Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bite-outa-the-apple dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Leading to fewer OS X apps? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wouldn't even be surprised to see a wrapper that installs Windows apps on Macs to run without a full version of Windows installed... As a Mac professional, this prospect scares the crap out of me.

    Ahem...

  2. Re:Not sure I understand by DLG · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hard to take seriously someone who gets confused by a "cel phone plan" but here is my apple experience. Wife has a 350mhz G4 tower she is using for whatever, 5 or 6 years. She goes back to school and as a gift I buy her the recently released and pretty quickly available 'mini'. Its pretty cheap. She moves all her stuff including her apps over to the new box. It runs. No problems. The old machine didn't die. We donated it to a theatre production company. In my basement is a working Apple ][+. Thats a 25 year old PC.

    To me, that is Apple. Yes their computers aren't the cheapest, but in 3 years I had to replace my desktop Dell 3 times due to hardware problems. Yes Apple has had hardware problems too, but the quality of hardware IS high, and the Mini is a really nice bit of engineering, as is my Nano.

    Basicly Apple does the same thing as most premium manufacturers. They charge more for a product that is better and sexier.

    If you are confused with Apple's product lines you have never gone to Dell or HP for computers.

    I call you troll:)

  3. Quicktime Pro by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Informative
    And the 'give us $25 more to unlock Quicktime Pro' is stupid, too.
    To be fair, Quicktime Pro allows to export, re-encode, etc. I'm glad I paid for it because I import/convert things all the time.

    The "stupid" thing about Quicktime is that you need the Pro version to view videos in full-screen. That feature is something that regular users need, not professionals.