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reprobate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 07:05 PM
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Prediction: Apple will change dynamics of PC market


http://www.macfixit.com/index.php

An IT Analysis article proposes that Steve Jobs looked at the PC market (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc) and thought: "None of these companies innovates in any significant way. Apple does (and not just in software). We can beat them. If Apple runs on Intel, you can load Windows (in a partition) and you can load Linux (in a partition), but it will still be an Apple booting OS X. Nobody else will be able to do that. We can have a much bigger market. More developers to

Main article here:http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12817&SESSID=9174d77384408c36c3caf2e5f8ded7fc
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 10:23 PM
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1. Back when Jobs first returned to Apple I was told by
some of the people in the MkLinux people that it will be a good idea to learn Linux because that is the direction Apple is going. Also Linux would have been our fall back if MS took us out. No way we were going to go to Windows.

It became apparent that Jobs was not going to fight MS on MS's terms, he was going to do an end run. Looks like our instincts were right.
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