Is apple getting closer to mainstream competition with MS?

[turpit]

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32429/118/

The new leapord OS looks appropriately window-fied (read: filled with worthless bloat and useless-resourse sucking eye candy - and yes, I am aware how many concepts MS stole from apple for windows), runs on Intel and can run boot camp.

With all the linux stuff, lawsuits, and open source rumours hovering around MS, can it be much longer before Apple can sucessfully port directly to mainstream x86 and run anything windows can, thus giving the majority of users an option: A crap filled bloat beast named Vista, or a crap filled bloat beast named 'something' from apple?

If so, it could quite possibly produce the same wonders for the OS that AMD forced into the CPU manufacturing arena, which would be a very good thing. Unless you own MS stock. Maybe, maybe not.

 

[Zoron]

MacOS has been bloated for quite some time. They even brag about it in their commercials. The only difference between Apple and MS is market share... other than that, they are identical.

 

[pkellmey]

If so, it could quite possibly produce the same wonders for the OS that AMD forced into the CPU manufacturing arena, which would be a very good thing.

You're missing the point - it's not its ability to run Windows on a Mac that will win the market place. It would be a generic X86 ability to run Mac OS. There are projects that can do it like OSX86, however the problem is that it is still technically illegal. As long as Apple wants a proprietary OS tied to system hardware drivers, it will never be mainstream. IBM's OS/2 had the same issue. How can anything flourish in the marketplace when 3rd party vendors have to play "Daddy, please" to get access to their interface? Ask anyone who has used Bootcamp, it runs Win apps however it does it so poorly that it can only be an absolute secondary option to the cheaper, real thing.

 

[turpit]

If so, it could quite possibly produce the same wonders for the OS that AMD forced into the CPU manufacturing arena, which would be a very good thing.

You're missing the point - it's not its ability to run Windows on a Mac that will win the market place. It would be a generic X86 ability to run Mac OS. There are projects that can do it like OSX86, however the problem is that it is still technically illegal. As long as Apple wants a proprietary OS tied to system hardware drivers, it will never be mainstream. IBM's OS/2 had the same issue. How can anything flourish in the marketplace when 3rd party vendors have to play "Daddy, please" to get access to their interface? Ask anyone who has used Bootcamp, it runs Win apps however it does it so poorly that it can only be an absolute secondary option to the cheaper, real thing.

Um, that was my point:

[quote="turpit']....can it be much longer before Apple can sucessfully port directly to mainstream x86 and run anything windows can...[/quote]

 

[pkellmey]

....can it be much longer before Apple can sucessfully port directly to mainstream x86 and run anything windows can...

Apple has already said it will not allow generic hardware to run its OS - they hold the license to what the OS can run on. Without a 3rd party app vendor assist, there is no way that they will be able to run Win apps like MS can - the environment is not the same. They've already made the decisions that will ultimately limit their marketability.

 

[turpit]

....can it be much longer before Apple can sucessfully port directly to mainstream x86 and run anything windows can...

Apple has already said it will not allow generic hardware to run its OS - they hold the license to what the OS can run on. Without a 3rd party app vendor assist, there is no way that they will be able to run Win apps like MS can - the environment is not the same. They've already made the decisions that will ultimately limit their marketability.

Times change, and companies say lots of things.