Contribution of Microsoft's Competitors to Microsoft's Monopoly
RE: "I guess Microsoft has a monopoly on good marketing, too. Do their competitors have any responsibility for the situation they find themselves in?"
Yes. Its mostly Apple's fault. They had the best chance at one time.
HR
PS: Ho humm ... For what its worth, Apple, with its mighty 3.8% market share, will always be out there trying:
"Tuesday, June 2nd, 10:18 AM EDT
Mac OSX/Intel update
Japanese sources now report that in a fully public presentation, Apple Japan representatives stated that OS X for the Intel processor architecture is being readied. Apparently, an audio-only QuickTime Movie (courtesy of the Mac Treasure Tracing Club) of the speech is available, but is only in Japanese. If any readers are able to translate this file, please send transcript(s) to MOSR here.
Additionally, one source noted a compelling explanation for a Carbon-compatible API set for the Intel platform:
I make no claims for having an inside track, but a message that I heard at WWDC (and one that you have alluded to) is that we owe thanks to the QuickTime team for the existence of Carbon on Rhapsody. That is: the effort to bring QT 3.0 to Rhapsody pretty much meant that Apple had to bring a large subset of the Toolbox to Rhapsody.
I think that it is a justifiable speculation that if QuickTime 3.0 formed the core library for Carbon on Rhapsody, the same must be true for Intel.
With QuickTime for Rhapsody/Intel almost fully functional, Apple's work to make a Carbon API set -- where developers would have to recompile, but other porting work would be light -- for the Intel platform is greatly reduced. This is not, however, a quick solution for Apple; there are many reasons why a port of Carbon to Intel would be difficult and very likely not 100% Carbon/PPC compatible....which of course fuels the fires of the ongoing debate of whether OS X for Intel is possible, likely, or sensible for Apple."
This is from Mac OS Rumors, a much maligned source. Nothing to worry about. It is a technical development at best, not a marketing innovation. Intel box makers will not be permitted to use it. Go back to sleep. HR |
