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Originally Posted by GRock
NPG sounds like your in the computer biz. Jobs has more tricks up his sleeve. History would show I-pod came out and was mac compatible only and sales were nothing. Then PC compatable and the rocket took off. HMMMM?? The Mac market small nitch market. Switch to Intel chips duel boot programs to use windows software. HMMMM?? Apple is fixing to make a major assault on PC market. That is wear the BIG market is. Just as the I-Pod assaulted the PC world the mac will be doing the same. The same old same old with the mac just can't be in the cards. I don't know how though. Can the Mac OS be designed to run windows programs directly?
GRock
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The next release is code named Leopard. It is also the OS that runs on the iPhone. It supports a new animation framework (animation-core), which will allow developers to tap in to all the nice animations you currently see on iTunes 7 and on the iPhone.
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek
Some people have reported that they have seen windows apps run natively within Mac OS in a research environment. Whether they are going to include this in the next OS, if ever, remains to be seen. A possible scenario is that you still install Windows on a second partition but call the apps from within MacOS. It is really best to have a full windows installation for this kind of thing, since you need all the libraries.
If you
google for 'mac leopard' you will get quite a few hits and you can tap into the rumor mill yourself.
What is interesting is whether Apple are going to be the ones going truly touch screen hardware on their entire product range. This is a major rethink on how people use the equipment today and Apple is the company most able to start a revolution like this.
Imagine a laptop with you flap open only to have a huge screen in the midle. No trackpad, no keyboard keys. Only a big screen. Just a bigger iPhone really. That's not that hard to imagine, is it?
We know more once Leopard is out.
Right now I would keep my fingers off Apple stock since it finds it hard to break through the 97-98$ barrier. Traditionally, this coming quatre has never been a good one for the IT industry in terms of sales. So the money leaves for other shores and the bears come out, creating a nice opportunity to bag this one at a nice discount.
These guys have a whole new product range lined up. They will gradually introduce it over the next years.
Windows has 95% market share on the desktop. Apple 2.4%. It is quite conceivable that they might achieve a 15 - 20% market share over the next 5 - 10 years. Mathematically it is impossible for MSFT to have the same growth in the desktop market now. In my book, MSFT has peaked.
PS: I remember a time when MSFT was the underdog fighting the evil empire. Things change fast in Silicon Valley.