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One might almost suppose they were Apple fans, first and foremost. :D
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It does that, but it seems to me that you've depicted an Apple that does not try to retain its customers, but instead expects commitment on their part. And...
Windows had surprised it by Win95 at least.
That is when the sort of designs we are seeing with Aqua became prominent on Windows.
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That too, that too. :D
However, I do feel that Aqua started out less like Windows, and has been evolving to be more like it.
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No; these sorts of libraries have existed for awhile to little visible effect.
It *is* true that running on Intel will ease porting Windows games some, but first they gotta *want* to port.
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Well, it's one thing to have a digital camera, another to do image editing with a computer.
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They seem to have had no visible effect so far.
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I don't know, maybe nobody, but if so then Apple is holding on in this niche by default, because nobody has set out to beat them... yet.
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No; I don't know what the education market wants.
What Apple is doing is taking consumer-oriented products and cutting their features and prices to make them affordable to education customers.
The idea of reducing the number of windows is kinda obvious, and when Mac OS...
They are not trying to make the best education computer they can. Not unless the now-discontinued eMac was such an attempt.
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Oh, please. I've heard this excuse before.
You're buttuming that offering backwards compatibility is a better way to maintain customers than offering great new stuff for them to buy all the time. The truth...
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Yes, but IE and WMP have also been canned. MS is not abandoning the Mac, but they are clearly cutting their losses.
Naturally, it makes sensed to cut the little used, unpopular things.
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Excel is used for everything. I mean, this is the One True App. The entire damn economy runs on Excel. It's scary. :
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