The future isn't DRM'd
Mike Arrington (with other tech bloggers) met with Bill Gates recently, and posted on the meeting. Sounds like MS is starting to realize that DRM is a mistake (makes me wonder: is the royalty to the studios actually an attempt to buy a way out of DRM?). Anyway - that potential realization is good news. This was precious though - one of the things Arrington noted about the meeting:
Seeing the look on Gates’ face when he walked into the room and every single one of us had a Mac open on the desk in front of us - Niall Kennedy had also set up a makeshift wifi network using an Airport
At conferences, there are always a disproportionate number of Macs. Makes me wonder what the market numbers will look like in 2-3 years.
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[Rick] December 14, 2006 9:59:44.926
At conferences, there are always a disproportionate number of Macs. Makes me wonder what the market numbers will look like in 2-3 years.
The same or worse for Apple. Vista will peel off some of the hipster crowd that considers XP too mainstream. It'll be time to take notice when Apple starts licensing OSX.
don't think so
[ Troy Brumley] December 14, 2006 11:01:36.773
Comment by Troy Brumley
Even with Vista, MS is part of "the establishment", so I don't expect to see the so called hipsters leave their Macs for Vista. The Intel macs have reduced the "coolness tax" on owning a Mac, and with virtualization I expect more and more people in the thought leader crowd will continue to use Macs and just bring up Windows in a virtual machine when they absolutely have to use Windows.
I bet Steve loved hearing about the expression on Bill's face ;)
Re: The future isn't DRM'd
[ James Robertson] December 14, 2006 11:07:10.506
Comment by James Robertson
Vista? Are you serious? Vista may be a lot of things, but "hip" isn't one of them. Here, have some PVP-OPM with your absurdity.
[Rick] December 14, 2006 13:53:36.910
Even with Vista, MS is part of "the establishment", so I don't expect to see the so called hipsters leave their Macs for Vista.
Even if hipsters don't leave OSX for Vista, the introduction of Vista will peel off users that were thinking about OSX, but that Vista is out will go with that. The tech-saavy crowd will be more attracted to Vista than the reality-distortion-field-black-turtle-neck-wearing crowd, because Vista has better display tech under the hood than OSX.
The Intel macs have reduced the "coolness tax" on owning a Mac,
Not near enough. Come talk when OSX is licensed to an OEM.
and with virtualization I expect more and more people in the thought leader crowd will continue to use Macs and just bring up Windows in a virtual machine when they absolutely have to use Windows.Who are these "thought leaders"? Isn't that what that idiot that James is always ripping on calls himself?
Vista? Are you serious? Vista may be a lot of things, but "hip" isn't one of them
Who says. As far as graphics prowess, it's a lot more hip than OSX. For the reality-distortion-field-black-turtle-neck-wearing crowd it probably isn't.