OS War? OS War!? Ahahahaaa
Sometimes wishful thinking for the underdog can get in the way of common sense. In fact, when you think about it, wishful thinking has been Apple Computer's Macintosh strategy since Steve Jobs returned to the company more than 8 years ago. This week, several online reports touted the upcoming "OS war" between Mac OS X Tiger--which is due as early as next month--and Microsoft's ever-delayed Longhorn system, which by most accounts will ship shortly after the US presidential election in 2164. From what I can tell, Tiger will be a big success for Apple, but only in the sense that the earlier Mac OS X versions have been big successes. In other words, Tiger will sell a few million copies and do absolutely nothing to change the Mac's market share, which is now less than 2 percent (although the el cheapo Mac mini might help Apple's market share). Longhorn, meanwhile, will sell in the hundreds of millions of copies in its first couple of years of availability and, like Windows XP, will continue the dominance that Windows has enjoyed since the mid-1990s. I'm not trying to argue that Longhorn will be better than Tiger; I'm just being pragmatic. Microsoft sold more copies of XP while I wrote this blurb than Apple will ever sell of Tiger. That's just how the market is. And anyone who tries to turn the releases of these two systems into some sort of market competition just doesn't get it.
Niin, miljoona kärpästä jotka tykkäävät paskasta eivät voi olla väärässä
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