Boot Camp pretty much defeats the purpose of buying a Mac to begin with. What would be logical, since their using the x86 platform now, is to just port over MacOS X to the PC. Though some of you might find it absurd, it's a lot more logical to do that than to have 'Boot Camp' to start with. Look at it this way, If Jobs were to open up the software to all PC users he would make more money in sales of the Operating System itself.
Now some of you might say that he would lose money because he can't sell his machines anymore. That's bull. Think of it this way- people are ignorant, just as you see these people coming into a Dell store or kiosk and buy these crap machines the same would conclude to Mac. Current Mac users, Graphic Designers, and many Corporations or even anyone who has the idea that Mac hardware is better (which its not) will still dish out the money. This is the good majority of the population.
Now, what about our Windows Applications? If Jobs opens the OS to the general PC market a lot more developers are willing to program for an ever growing platform. More willingness to program for a popular platform will help boost MacOS X application support. And Windows Backwards compatibility can be programmed into Mac OS X as well though Library Emulation. (Such as Wine and Cedega in Linux)
And about the OS being unstable on a normal PC is bull as well. Okay, PC hardware is vast, I'll give you all that. But everything is a standard. Hardware developers would (and I'm 95% sure) be willing to work with apple and make drivers that would perform just as well as on Mac hardware. Until recently, most chipset drivers are pretty generic unless you're dealing with server hardware. The companies that have special features on their chipsets such as Intel, ATi, NVIDIA, and so on, would be major contenders in this project because they could earn more money with new hardware.
The point is... is that, Jobbie... if you let us have the f**king Operating System, than you would be doing a whole lot of good for us and for yourself. So, just do it already!
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Now some of you might say that he would lose money because he can't sell his machines anymore. That's bull. Think of it this way- people are ignorant, just as you see these people coming into a Dell store or kiosk and buy these crap machines the same would conclude to Mac. Current Mac users, Graphic Designers, and many Corporations or even anyone who has the idea that Mac hardware is better (which its not) will still dish out the money. This is the good majority of the population.
Now, what about our Windows Applications? If Jobs opens the OS to the general PC market a lot more developers are willing to program for an ever growing platform. More willingness to program for a popular platform will help boost MacOS X application support. And Windows Backwards compatibility can be programmed into Mac OS X as well though Library Emulation. (Such as Wine and Cedega in Linux)
And about the OS being unstable on a normal PC is bull as well. Okay, PC hardware is vast, I'll give you all that. But everything is a standard. Hardware developers would (and I'm 95% sure) be willing to work with apple and make drivers that would perform just as well as on Mac hardware. Until recently, most chipset drivers are pretty generic unless you're dealing with server hardware. The companies that have special features on their chipsets such as Intel, ATi, NVIDIA, and so on, would be major contenders in this project because they could earn more money with new hardware.
The point is... is that, Jobbie... if you let us have the f**king Operating System, than you would be doing a whole lot of good for us and for yourself. So, just do it already!
~ Zane