Could this be the big cat that Steve Jobs lets out of the bag this year?
| by Joe Leo, Columnist | January 4, 2007 |
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...Leopard, Mac OS X v10.5, available for installation on all personal computers, Mac or PC.
What if Apple has finally learned that it can't compete in the market unless it lends its software to all the masses? It learned that lesson well when it made the iPod available for Mac or PC. Just think if they'd made the iPod only for Macs.
(Something we thought should have been done when the iPod first came out, thinking it was a mistake, but we were not a columnist or reporter at the time to make that commentary public. And thank goodness just the same, because would we have been wrong... very wrong!).
Did the world just stop spinning? Did your heart just stop beating? (Whoa, was that a pig that just flew by?).
And what better time could there be to do this, what with all the news toward the end of 2006 that the Mac-maker is enjoying a roller coaster ride, its best one yet in history? It may have taken them 30 years to finally give in, but Apple isn't getting any younger folks, and like they said on New Year's Day...
"The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007."
So what are the possibilities behind this? Well for one thing, the first question is, what becomes of Apple's hardware? Will that go out the door? We personally don't think so. There will always be the majority of users--like us and our fellow Mac aficionados--that will always want to have a Macintosh computer as our piece of hardware, our peace of mind.
It's a two-way street, or to quote ourselves from an article we wrote last week, people can live on both sides of the fence and still like each other and get along.
Like Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor and his neighbor Wilson-- talk about "Home Improvement." With Mac OS X available for Mac or PC, everyone's lives will improve by 500% and all will enjoy and reap the benefits of a superior operating system.
"The world's most advanced operating system."
The PC user who owns an HP computer, or a Dell, or a Compaq (do they still make those?), Sony, etc., now has a choice. Windows Vista, or Mac OS X. Just as owners of Intel-based Macs today have the choice of Mac OS X or Windows XP. If the PC user doesn't want to shell out their life savings on a new Mac computer, then that's their loss, uh, that's their choice.
Those like us who want an iMac on their desktop, a Mac Pro at work, and a MacBook Pro or non-pro edition as their portable notebook computer, will always have it that way.
And that customer base will never disappear for Apple as long as they continue to bring Mac users what they've come to love (and hate) for the past 30 years.
Come on now. Please. Name one person who's said "I chose to make the move from the Mac over to a Windows PC because I just couldn't get used to Apple and their darn difficult-to-work-with OS and machines."
So, are we onto something here?? And if so, this is the exclusive site to have found this information first, since, we haven't seen it discussed anywhere else-- at least, not in this particular form and presentation.
Plus, we constantly search out other Mac-centric news/rumor sites on a daily basis to keep abreast of everything related to Apple and the Mac, and no one's talking about or contemplating any of this. (At least, none that we've come across so far... except here!).
Currently, the most anticipated rumor/prediction is that Mac OS X Leopard will be released immediately instead of in the Spring. That's a more logical conclusion, but where's the fun in that? Let's really "Think Different" here!