To: Done, gone. who wrote (51221) | 2/21/2006 6:41:30 PM | From: Don Green | | | You certainly have a bitter side to your personality, Lighten up! I am not saying it is going to happen. It is just an interesting possibility, as is very similar to what he wrote a few years ago when everyone here here said it would never happen. |
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To: Don Green who wrote (51222) | 2/21/2006 6:43:33 PM | From: Done, gone. | | | It's not interesting, it's not a possibility, it's tired, he was a decade late with 1/3 of his wild ass crap, and I'll lighten up when you grow a sense of humor. As likely as Mac OS morphing into fuçking Windoze, as opposed to vice versa, as always... |
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To: Don Green who wrote (51216) | 2/21/2006 6:50:05 PM | From: Cogito | | | Don -
That's a good one. Dvorak is always interesting, if often wrong.
In this article he devotes two paragraphs to the idea that a lack of drivers for peripherals "would be" a big problem for Apple. As if this is a problem that will develop in the future.
"As someone who believed that the Apple OS x86 could gravitate toward the PC rather than Windows toward the Mac, I have to be realistic. It boils down to the add-ons. Linux on the desktop never caught on because too many devices don't run on that OS. It takes only one favorite gizmo or program to stop a user from changing. Chat rooms are filled with the likes of 'How do I get my DVD burner to run on Linux?' This would get old fast at Apple."
Apple has always had this driver issue to deal with. Sometimes it's a problem. Since their market share is increasing, it will become less of a problem over time.
It's also strange to say that Linux hasn't caught on in a bigger way because of driver issues. Drivers are only one of the many stumbling blocks the average user faces with Linux.
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To: Don Green who wrote (51216) | 2/21/2006 6:54:01 PM | From: X-Ray Man | | | Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2.
And look how many of those companies continued to make money selling high-end Windows boxes. Oh, yeah, none. They dumped those businesses. Dvorak is an idiot. |
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