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Interesting read with some good points albiet biased towards the aspect they will move. But does show that it is not impossible, though nothing soon and I'd ag
by Zenst 14y ago
Interesting read with some good points albiet biased towards the aspect they will move. But does show that it is not impossible, though nothing soon and I'd agree that laptops would be there first target area. I also liked the aspect that OSX is becomming more and more phone OS like and that could indeed also be said of the upcomming win8 due to metro. Overall I see both Apple and Microsoft going for consumer level devices, remember calculators are computers as well, only biased for the application and in that both apple and microsoft are transitioning towards a unified interface and standard making computers more and more consumerised. Thats ok as there will always be Linux and many other operating systems to play with if you need that level of interaction and in that whilst its a change I don't like, I can understand it.
One aspect not touched upon in this article is the whole area of a server, one which apple walked away from and is a whole empty cavity that could become one which a 64bit version of ARM chips down the line could end up making that area viable for Apple again. Though it would probably be a solid white cube called iPortal j/k.
Either way, even if they do move they can still brow beat Intel for even better prices milking every avenue of options along the way. Though any move to a ARM base for OSX would at the earliest be 2 years away and relisticaly 4-5. Though for servers and processing farms it does become a whole new avenue.
- xradionut 14y ago"Overall I see both Apple and Microsoft going for consumer level devices, remember calculators are computers as well, only biased for the application and in that both apple and microsoft are transitioning towards a unified interface and standard making computers more and more consumerised. Thats ok as there will always be Linux and many other operating systems to play with if you need that level of interaction and in that whilst its a change I don't like, I can understand it." A huge chunk of Microsoft revenue comes from business customers, pros and the ilk, who run applications that can't all be distilled down to a touch interface. There's still a CLI in Windows 8 and much of the MS new server products are driven with CLI in the form of Powershell. You can pick your level of interaction that you need.