Apple's 75-80% of its total revenue still counts on hardware sales even
when the cross-platform Rhapsoody is available to WinTel users. (currently,
it is about 85-90% of total revenue is generated from hardware sales).
If Mac hardware sales slip too fast then, probably another layoffs may
be needed. Therefore, it is pretty risk to have OS with cross-platform
capability. Umax and Power companies are not stupid enough to wait until
that happens.
However, if Rhapsoody is very successful in penetrating into the WinTel
territory, e.g. 5% of total WinTel users buy Rhapsoody, which might push
more developers to develop software on Rhapsoody and have it get popular.
So, this tradeoff war is still unknown for Apple, but for PowerPC developers,
IBM and Motorola, it is not that exciting. I believe these two giants
already know how to defend themselves. |
