As for AMD, since all the momenum is for laptops, why is AMD such a threat to Apple? On the Desktop, yeah those Opteron chips are amazing but in the laptop world AMD’s battery life is miserable.

What I mean by more..

1. Where are the drivers for doze !
   I’m sure the windows drivers for the intelmac hardware will eventually popup from someone. But would it not be great if apple takes an initiative to release those drivers.

2. Centralised media
   Well, I want my windows version of itunes to access the same music archive/configuration as that of my OSX version on that machine. I donot want to create another copy of the media on the NTFS partition and I donot want to authorize the DRM songs again as if from a new machine when it is not. This might need apple to release a software that gives access(read/write) to the OSX partition in windows.

3. Why not go a little further and release a windows version of frontrow (ya, just like iTunes). Imagine being able to use your itunes/frontrow from both windows/osx seamlessly accessing the same media on your osx partition.

I’m expecting more from apple.

Maybe windows is full of holes but frankly, it doesnt affect me at all. And, I dont see the point in forking out 1500USD for a Mac, while a 600USD PC does just the same

It’s not like Apple is making any money from operating systems. I think apple is genuinely testing the waters here for a switch away from MacOS.

Apple has two markets: iPods/iTunes (sadly the largest money maker by far), and very cool-looking computer hardware that people percieve as robust and reliable. Apple is good at carefully controlling what goes into its machines, whereas you have no idea what’s in your standard run-of-the-mill PC.

Apple will continue to focus on the areas it’s making money in, and will get out of the areas it’s losing in.

Also, to respond to the anti-AMD comment above: Yes, conroe looks good. It’s also not out yet. Neither is AMD’s next chip. Conroe will gain a lot of ground, but AMD’s not going to let itself fall out of the game.

Apologist. Oh poor Microsoft. I guess it’s not easy over-promising and under-delivering. What huge undertaking? We might just get something that’s a shade above XP SP2 once they finally throw out enough features to ship it before the end of time.

Google, with its one trick pony and 55 F P/E compared with Apple’s 36 F P/E makes Apple still look they aren’t quite trading in the same clouds as Google.

But hey I’m usually wrong… Regardless, keep up the great coverage. :)

LOL great link. Hey Google is a nifty company but comparing iTunes to anything other than the Picasa or Sketchup from Google is like comparing a Rembrandt to my childs doodling. Google is one of the worst companies at designing interfaces. Gmail finally has become what Apple would have had in version 1.

Seriously …I’m available to become a high paid Analyst anytime. It’s obvious that experience and smarts isn’t necessary. I can whip up some juicy soundbites.

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I particularly like the quote about Google’s future being “one of the major suppliers of downloaded content” - I guess he hasn’t played with Google Video much.

Which industry are you talking about? With $6 or $7 billion in computer sales, I doubt you are talking about that one.

What I meant by IE is the standard is that overwhelming that’s what people use ~80% of users. If 80% of the people who use it don’t care what browser they use, well that’s not Microsoft’s fault.

And yes, like hmurchison brings up, Microsoft is in a lot of markets that you obviously don’t care about or are aware of.
SQL Server is actually kicking ass.

Office might be bloatware, but it’s still the standard. They’re might be a million and one competitors, but none of them are making a serious dent right now.

Their OS might not be the greatest, but dude before you slam them look at everything they do and how successful they are overall. From gaming to accounting software to TV, MS is in it.

I’m not even sure that the desktop OS makes up 50% of their business anymore.