If Apple reverse engineered the Windows API, Microsoft would probably make "improvements" to it out of spite, to cause things to break when run on the Mac's reverse-engineered API.
Actually, I'd say that implementing Win32 on Mac OS X would be a way that Apple could screw Microsoft, but good. A second implementation would freeze it: "Why aren't you using the normal win32? I want to use your app on my Mac!"
It would create considerable pressure on developers to ensure that their apps needed nothing more than whatever snapshot of the Win32 API Apple had decided to implement. WINE is trying to track MS's changes, but if Apple turns Win32 into another penalty-box environment like Classic or X11.
I find it funny that apple wants to run windows alongside.
More like, Apple's willing to accomodate those users who have some windows app that they must use, for whatever reason. I wouldn't quite describe that as wanting to run windows, and more than they want to run X11 apps.
"Addict" is not what you call someone who commits crimes repeatedly. Appropriate terms are "recidivist", "repeat offender", and hopefully some day, "lifer."
I am bloody tired of people tossing off a word like "addict" to describe someone who's just a goddamned crook.
MS can keep letting their customers down because they're a monopoly.
The monopoly seriously impedes people switching to a better platform, but it by no means makes it impossible. I don't expect a mass exodus to the Mac, but I certainly could see them getting up to 25% or more, with Linux picking up both the lower-cost, and the big-iron markets.
Apple WILL NEVER SUCCEED in replacing Windows/PC's as the dominant computer platform....and the Berlin Wall will never come down in our lifetime!
Seriously, after the longhorn disaster, how many times do you think MS can keep letting their customers down?
Back in 1982, I remember being told that PCs were cute and all, but all serious work would always be done on IBM's Big Iron. Didn't turn out that way, did it?
my guess is that they researched all their CPU options
Not only that, I'm sure they got full disclosure of all of Intel's work in progress for upcoming parts, and had the same knowledge about Freescale and IBM's PPC efforts.
Apple is a funny company that has highs and lows. Right now they are on a high,
No, they're at about an 8-month low right now. Apparently, Wall Street has no idea just how insignificant the French market is for iTMS revenues.
Basically, AAPL's share price is driven by news: financial results, new product announcements, etc. I expect the stock to keep getting beaten up until WWDC and the Q3 earnings report. I expect it to hit another new high around the time of MacWorld, when the whole product line is on Intel, and we're not seeing people defer purchases anymore. Christmas '06 will be another blowout year. They might even have to go 24/7 in a lot more of their stores.
-jcr
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Apple does say what the revenues and the profit margins are on the Mac. They just don't report each model separately.
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Apple is a public company and has a duty to disclose to its' owners what the profit margins are
You're right up to this point...
on various products....and this is where you go off into the weeds.
Apple's fiduciary duty is to increase shareholder value, and tipping their hand to the competition by disclosing every trade secret that some twat on Wall Street thinks they should would be a bloody stupid thing to do.
If this were IBM, Microsoft or even Red Hat, all the usual slashdot mac-zealots would be calling for their heads.
No, if any of those companies found a problem in the course of their own audits and reported it as Apple has, it would be just as much of a non-event as this is.
Well, in a nutshell: Mao's incompetent meddling in agriculture resulted mass starvation, and during the worst of it he was still exporting food to other communist countries in a bid to outshine Stalin as the leader of world communism. Rather than put up with any reduction in his power as a natural consequence of his incompetence, he started his own version of Stalin's purges, which he called the "cultural revolution". Anyone who questioned Mao's power (and many who didn't) was imprisoned or executed.. Ask your grandparents about the Red Guard.
When I talk to people in China, nearly everyone knows that they or their parents lost some relatives during the cultural revolution, but hardly anyone there realizes that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo, by many orders of magnitude.
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Seems like a great time to buy Apple shares right now as they are in a dip at around $57.
;-)
Better still, buy January $70 calls..
-jcr
If Apple reverse engineered the Windows API, Microsoft would probably make "improvements" to it out of spite, to cause things to break when run on the Mac's reverse-engineered API.
Actually, I'd say that implementing Win32 on Mac OS X would be a way that Apple could screw Microsoft, but good. A second implementation would freeze it: "Why aren't you using the normal win32? I want to use your app on my Mac!"
It would create considerable pressure on developers to ensure that their apps needed nothing more than whatever snapshot of the Win32 API Apple had decided to implement. WINE is trying to track MS's changes, but if Apple turns Win32 into another penalty-box environment like Classic or X11.
That being said, I don't see it happening.
-jcr
I wanted one but Apple refused to finance me
Actually, it's not Apple that decides that, it's MBNA.
-jcr
So were Carlon Ponzi and Reed Slatkin. It's a common trait among perps in the con game.
-jcr
I find it funny that apple wants to run windows alongside.
More like, Apple's willing to accomodate those users who have some windows app that they must use, for whatever reason. I wouldn't quite describe that as wanting to run windows, and more than they want to run X11 apps.
-jcr
Had you considered the possibility that we might actually prefer Windows, or even think it's better?
Than what, a sharp stick in the eye?
BTW, kudos for a great troll. Not worried about security, because you avoid opening mail attachements or viewing some web sites? Priceless!
-jcr
He's addicted to this type of behavior and cannot control his actions.
"Sucks to be him, counselor. His victims are addicted to kicking the shit out of him. Bailiff, please throw the defendant to the gallery."
-jcr
He kept doing it after he'd been caught three or four times, till finally he got 5 years. That's not rational behaviour.
Crime is stupid behavior, based on the belief that one won't get caught. The guy's stupid, but probably not crazy.
-jcr
"Addict" is not what you call someone who commits crimes repeatedly. Appropriate terms are "recidivist", "repeat offender", and hopefully some day, "lifer."
I am bloody tired of people tossing off a word like "addict" to describe someone who's just a goddamned crook.
-jcr
"Dear reader, suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. " --Mark Twain.
-jcr
MS can keep letting their customers down because they're a monopoly.
The monopoly seriously impedes people switching to a better platform, but it by no means makes it impossible. I don't expect a mass exodus to the Mac, but I certainly could see them getting up to 25% or more, with Linux picking up both the lower-cost, and the big-iron markets.
-jcr
Apple WILL NEVER SUCCEED in replacing Windows/PC's as the dominant computer platform. ...and the Berlin Wall will never come down in our lifetime!
Seriously, after the longhorn disaster, how many times do you think MS can keep letting their customers down?
Back in 1982, I remember being told that PCs were cute and all, but all serious work would always be done on IBM's Big Iron. Didn't turn out that way, did it?
-jcr
my guess is that they researched all their CPU options
Not only that, I'm sure they got full disclosure of all of Intel's work in progress for upcoming parts, and had the same knowledge about Freescale and IBM's PPC efforts.
-jcr
Apple is a funny company that has highs and lows. Right now they are on a high,
No, they're at about an 8-month low right now. Apparently, Wall Street has no idea just how insignificant the French market is for iTMS revenues.
Basically, AAPL's share price is driven by news: financial results, new product announcements, etc. I expect the stock to keep getting beaten up until WWDC and the Q3 earnings report. I expect it to hit another new high around the time of MacWorld, when the whole product line is on Intel, and we're not seeing people defer purchases anymore. Christmas '06 will be another blowout year. They might even have to go 24/7 in a lot more of their stores.
-jcr
Apple does say what the revenues and the profit margins are on the Mac. They just don't report each model separately.
-jcr
Apple is a public company and has a duty to disclose to its' owners what the profit margins are
...and this is where you go off into the weeds.
You're right up to this point...
on various products.
Apple's fiduciary duty is to increase shareholder value, and tipping their hand to the competition by disclosing every trade secret that some twat on Wall Street thinks they should would be a bloody stupid thing to do.
-jcr
If this were IBM, Microsoft or even Red Hat, all the usual slashdot mac-zealots would be calling for their heads.
No, if any of those companies found a problem in the course of their own audits and reported it as Apple has, it would be just as much of a non-event as this is.
-jcr
This headline is complete BS. Apple's own internal auditors found something that might be an issue, and Apple reported it to the SEC themselves.
-jcr
Every thing MS can do to further alienate their customers brings the monopoly closer to its demise.
-jcr
Well, in a nutshell: Mao's incompetent meddling in agriculture resulted mass starvation, and during the worst of it he was still exporting food to other communist countries in a bid to outshine Stalin as the leader of world communism. Rather than put up with any reduction in his power as a natural consequence of his incompetence, he started his own version of Stalin's purges, which he called the "cultural revolution". Anyone who questioned Mao's power (and many who didn't) was imprisoned or executed.. Ask your grandparents about the Red Guard.
When I talk to people in China, nearly everyone knows that they or their parents lost some relatives during the cultural revolution, but hardly anyone there realizes that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo, by many orders of magnitude.
-jcr
I didn't say backward compatibility, I said total backward compatiblity.
-jcr
Umm... Scopes lost his case, even though he was obviously right.
-jcr
Copland was a management failure, too. Way too many conflicting promises made, and the biggest one was the promise of total backward compatibility.
-jcr
Dvorak would be claiming that OS X and Linux would both adopt the Windows NT kernel by this time next year.
-jcr
a software pioneer named Ray Ozzie.
I'd hardly call him a pioneer. He's just someone who's been around for a long time.
I've always considered Notes to be a poor re-implementation of USENET.
-jcr