Let's see: Apple is selling tons of iPods, keeping lots of media and youth attention on Apple. Apple has switched to Intel and now allows you to dual boot Windows, meaning that Apples now look very attractive to businesses, since they can now have the benefit of both Windows and Mac OS X without having to buy seperate computers.
I'd say that Apple is poised to do extremely well, and this guy is smoking some seriously gnarly stuff.
My impression is that most people are fairly happy with current TV resolutions. They may not be great, but they are adequate, and in some ways it may be a mistake to go with higher resolutions.
The future seems to be pathed not in more pixels, but in pixels that can go on a variety of devices. By this I mean people are more and more interested in watching TV or obtaining media from the Internet. To me, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray debate has been almost comical, since companies are fighting over control of the next generation of a dying technology, meanwhile Apple and others are working towards creating systems that have equal or even less resolution that todays media, but is far more portable and that you can obtain without leaving your room.
Download media from the net onto your computer. Take it with you on your video iPod or other similar device and watch it while you are waiting to see your doctor. Or if you are staying home, watch it on your TV in your living room as it is streamed over your house's wireless connection.
This is where the future is at, not on a overly DRMed disk.
Games are a fairly large part of the computer industry. Most games work under Windows, but not Mac OS X. For that reason, I generally tend to use Windows (and sometimes Linux). That said, I think that Mac OS X is a better operating system. I would prefer to be able to use Mac OS X for my regular daily activities, but still have Windows around for playing games. For me, this is perfect, and I for one plan to switch to a Mac the next time I need to buy a computer.
So not only do people now have to pay a huge amount for Windows, but people will have to essentially pay for 'protection' from vulnerabilities built into their own product? Sounds like a regular racket to me.
"Pay us or your OS gets it in the knees"
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Let's see: Apple is selling tons of iPods, keeping lots of media and youth attention on Apple. Apple has switched to Intel and now allows you to dual boot Windows, meaning that Apples now look very attractive to businesses, since they can now have the benefit of both Windows and Mac OS X without having to buy seperate computers. I'd say that Apple is poised to do extremely well, and this guy is smoking some seriously gnarly stuff.
My impression is that most people are fairly happy with current TV resolutions. They may not be great, but they are adequate, and in some ways it may be a mistake to go with higher resolutions. The future seems to be pathed not in more pixels, but in pixels that can go on a variety of devices. By this I mean people are more and more interested in watching TV or obtaining media from the Internet. To me, the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray debate has been almost comical, since companies are fighting over control of the next generation of a dying technology, meanwhile Apple and others are working towards creating systems that have equal or even less resolution that todays media, but is far more portable and that you can obtain without leaving your room. Download media from the net onto your computer. Take it with you on your video iPod or other similar device and watch it while you are waiting to see your doctor. Or if you are staying home, watch it on your TV in your living room as it is streamed over your house's wireless connection. This is where the future is at, not on a overly DRMed disk.
Games are a fairly large part of the computer industry. Most games work under Windows, but not Mac OS X. For that reason, I generally tend to use Windows (and sometimes Linux). That said, I think that Mac OS X is a better operating system. I would prefer to be able to use Mac OS X for my regular daily activities, but still have Windows around for playing games. For me, this is perfect, and I for one plan to switch to a Mac the next time I need to buy a computer.
So not only do people now have to pay a huge amount for Windows, but people will have to essentially pay for 'protection' from vulnerabilities built into their own product? Sounds like a regular racket to me. "Pay us or your OS gets it in the knees"