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To: David Kelly who wrote (34035)	7/17/2002 5:05:18 PM
From: jonkai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

I am talking about Apple only selling x86 boxes .... I am thinking like $600 and how is this any different than what E-machines does, or Gateway, or Walmart..... none of them are getting swamped with orders..... by doing this you marginalize the MacOS, making it just as bad as WindowsXP... you create the same headaches of not having the right drivers for the right monitors and the right Firewire cards and the right peripherals..... you've in effect created the Wintel problems all over again..... it would be just as bad as Wintel, but with the added bonus of being involved in a price war with one more player with all these other people who do the same thing...... so you get a bad OS, (because the hardware isn't integrated with the OS as well) in a cheap box with cut throat margins..... sounds like a plan to me.... i think you are making the same mistake as MSFT is making when they say that apple should market the OS more..... apple sells a complete computing system, and advertise the heck out of it.... if apple just sold the OS by itself, it would not be any better than windowsXP, (well, it would be, but hear me out) it would have the same problems as WindowsXP has with incompatible hardware passing itself off as certified, and then the customer blames MSFT for the zip drive they just bought, causing lots of grief and hair pulling.... and advertising research firm did a study this year, and apple's flatpanel imac add that sticks its tongue out, was the highest rated ad this year so far for people who "liked it"...... that add, like it or not, was advertising the entire system including OSX, the experiance of good design and style, and OSX is part of it..... if you take it out and put it in a pizza box..., it is like a fish out of water... like a Mercedes with a built in CORDED phone..... something is out of place, and people are going to notice.... jon.