Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 3857

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:34:41 -0700, Raggs

If it's a rest blow it's by dissolution planting. Apple better have another iPod up their sleeves if they are going to survive the next 12 months. They won't have their x86 boxes for another year, in the mean time the sales of the current Macs are going to plunge. If they survive long enough to actually ship the new kit there isn't going to be much software on it except for open source, which is available on Linux boxes so who needs an Apple, and Apple's own software. The commercial software vendors are going to take this as an opportunity to drop Mac support altogether. The Mac's market share is so tiny at this point that there is no point in continuing to support it. When Apple went from the 68K to the PPC they had a 14% market share so it was still worthwhile for software vendors to make the transition. When they went for OS9 to OS10 they only had a 4% market share and a large percentage of the vendors didn't bother to make the transition. Steve Jobs was able to do some arm twisting and get some high profile vendors to change their minds but now the Mac only has a 2% share so the argument for dropping it is even better. In 12 months the Mac's share will be 1-2% at best, no vendor is going to want to support it no matter how loud Steve Jobs screams.