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Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Apple surrenders?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As most people know, the Intel-based Macs will run Microsoft’s Windows XP, but now Apple has announced they’ve released beta software that makes the process a bit easier. I am not sure what the software is, but I assume it is something like the GRUB boot loader, which on Linux systems allows the user to select which OS they want to operate in during the boot process.
While reading the article the thought entered my head that this is basically Apple surrendering the software development prize to Microsoft.
The fatal flaw of Apple has always been that the software available for their machines is rather pathetic and expensive.
You can download better free PC software than you can buy on an Apple. For example, Filezilla, a free FTP client, blows Fetch, which works with Apples, out of the water. And don’t even get me started on IRC clients, that’s the Internet’s longest-running software joke.
In a nutshell, Apple is encouraging people to NOT USE their operating system because they realize no one except them is developing software for OSX — and that the software they develop can’t compete with that of third party developers guided by Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.”
Try visiting Best Buy and buying a game for OSX, you will see what I mean.
Your thoughts?
