Third-Day Thoughts on Boot Camp

post from Mac Geekery - Get your geek on. on 07 April 2006 05:00:03 AM. © Mac Geekery - Get your geek on.

It's not the end of the world.

I've read around the web for the past day or so, as well as on several of the mailing lists I read, and I see some very pessimistic viewpoints of this release and especially the announcement that this will be a part of Leopard. Some are saying that it could ease the transition to Windows because companies would say "well, you can dual-boot, can't you?" and then not release software for the Mac. Others are saying it's the first step into Apple using Windows as a desktop OS. Still others think Apple's turning into a Dell and will start to ship dual-boot machines out of the factory.

Mac Software is Safe

Anyone that reiterates the first argument has likely never worked for a software company before. You don't have the clout – ever – to force a consumer to change operating systems to run your program. Adobe will not make designers flip to Windows to run one program and then flip back to run another (be it theirs or someone else's). Aspyr will not be ditching the game-porting business. Apple is simply not going to lose application ground to Windows because ? Apple is not really competing with Microsoft with this move.

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