[X4U] Apple dumping OSX....

[Miche Doherty]

On Feb 17, 2006, at 3:55 am, Dominic wrote:

> Not sure if this article has made the complete rounds, I know that 
> Dvorak is a long time Apple hater, but there has to be some fire to 
> this smoke? What has me most concerned is Adobe's decision to postpone 
> Intel version of their Apps until 2007. That kills the Printing and 
> Graphic industries in one stroke.

I think Dvorak likes, from time to time, to write something egregiously 
stupid about Apple in order to generate some "controversy" - i.e. page 
hits. The alternative is that he believes this stuff, but let's be 
charitable. He offers, at best, a few half-baked reasons why Apple 
*might* consider switching to some vaguely-conjectured 
Windows-with-a-nicer-GUI, but he neither produces any evidence that 
they are, nor considers any counter-arguments regarding what happens to 
Apple's hardware sales if they become a maker of mid- to high-end PCs 
running the same OS and apps as anyone else's. And when he drags up the 
appearance of Bill Gates's Big Giant Head at a 1997 Stevenote as an 
indication that Apple will change OS almost a decade later, you know 
he's trying to make bricks without straw.

As for Adobe: have they really postponed their Intel versions? I'm not 
aware of any previously-announced earlier target date. Remember that, 
until last month, Apple's public position was that the changeover would 
be complete by the second half of next year, and Adobe was (still is) 
on track to meet that target.

Miche.