[X4U] Windoze on Intel Macs

[Eugene]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:12:56PM CDT, Philip J Robar <pjrobar at areyoureallythatstupid.org> wrote:
: 
: On Apr 6, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Eugene wrote:
: 
: >Parallels is nice. But it's a 3rd-party solution. And we've
: >seen critical 3rd-party go away when Apple (and its customers)
: >needed it. Metrowerks Codewarrior. Connectix Virtual PC.
: 
: This doesn't make any sense. What you're effectively saying is that  
: no one should ever use any software that doesn't come from Apple.  
: (Because Apple would never discontinue a vital application that you  
: depend on.) Do you really not use any software that isn't shipped by  
: Apple?

No, what I'm saying is that there have been times when Apple was trying
to make a major shift, but the underlying software needed to make that
shift was not up to par because that 3rd party wasn't that interested.

When Apple needed better Mac OS X development environments, the fine
folks at Motorola started focusing the product on its embedded systems.

When Apple switched to Intel CPUs, the fine folks at M$ hedged around
and didn't commit to porting Virtual PC.

Heck, when Apple needed a modern web browser, the fine folks at M$
decided that the browser war was over and stopped developing MacIE.


-- 
Eugene
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/