I think you need to read the other posts more carefully, I think everyone is taking the "news" in the correct context. It's speculation, it's interesting speculation, what if it's true (or even somewhere near true)?
I know! Isn't it cool! It's great to actually be part of something so exciting and interesting that we all get fired up about it.
I'm an 05'Switcher (i.e. late, but making good time)... I picked up a Mini when they were released to "try" Macs. No intention of actually switching (i.e. using a Mac as my main machine).
Week 1: Fiddled with Mac, USED PC.
Week 2: Discovered Expose, minor revolution that such a tiny tiny feature could make such a huge difference to working with multiple applications concurrently.
Week 3: Realized that when working on my Mini, I ran far far more apps concurrently than Windows. Realized my Mini cost £329, and my PC £2000, and the mini threw more applications around at the same time.
Week 4: Took credit card in hand, replaced all my core software with Mac versions (MS Office, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Eclipse), go to grips with X-Code. Upgraded Mini memory and hard-drive.
That's about 6 months ago now, and I now only use my PC for one thing. Counter-Strike: Source.
And your point is? I think you may be right, it probably doesn't. However, I remember similar analysis with the K7-K8. Now AMD are finally _beginning_ to look like they can move from the home market and start to focus on the business sector.
I'm not sure that's true, I'm a pretty pragmatic guy, especially when I work with the machine at least 10 hours a day. When I do have to go back to a PC (I haven't "switched" my laptop yet and do visit customers) I hate it. Literally, life-time Windows user, I hate it.
Genuine question... what on earth are you drooling over? I agree WMC didn't get it right straight away, and in my opinion it's not right now. I also agree FrontRow isn't there yet either. At least, not in the "whole nine yards" sense of "there". Actually, what it does, it does much better than WMC. It's typical Apple really, it may not do everything, but what it does, it does reeeeaaaallly well.
Slick UI? Discuss.
X-Box 360? I'm not against it, still don't see it doing anything my now-gaming-rig doesn't do.
Yup. It's a personal thing however, I would rather a partial solution that does what it does perfectly, than a complete solution with mediocraty across the application.
But lets drag this back to "reality" as you say. WMC sales are tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny proportion of the picture. The market is adopting these solutions fully yet (and I mean compared to say sales of DVD players). This is not yet "a big issue" for any OS.
Agreed, but you know what, I don't think anyone was waving the "end of windows" flag. OS-X is zero miles along the true corp. penetration road. May never even get there. Much bigger market is the corp. infrastructure, and THAT is open for Mac invasion, *NIX does it better, and Linux will help the penetration.
I guess I can't really see how we get from where we are, to iBook's on corporate desks. Just not sure I care that much.
What do I want? To see Apple capture a significant share of the domestic market, and force people to see they have choices. What they chose is up to them. I know I've chosen OS-X right now. I want to be certain I can make a new decision in the future.
I don't really care to see apple with 90% of that market, 40% would be enough to demonstrate credible alternative. I also expect that we will see the same slow erotion of the domestic windows market that we have seen with the domestic Intel market. It's not going to be quick, and I think Apple are going to have some REALLY tough decisions to make over the next 5-7 years.
However, since the demise of the Amiga and Atari ST and the extreemly exciting emergence of Windows 95, at long last, thank god, for the first time in years, I'm actually transfixed by the progress of computing. I have a list of 10 tiny features that OS-X has that make it a pleasure to use. None of them big, all of them I feel like a small stroke of genius.
I hope Windows Vista is f***ing FANTASTIC, I hope it drives Apple to try harder and harder, and the Linux distro developers.
Competition is good. Speculation is fun. Reality? I don't see what bearing that has on this thread