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What Apple Cannot do if it wants to survive

Damien Barrett: What Apple Should Do to Increase Marketshare

Damien suggests Apple purchase VirtualPC and integrate it with Mac OS X, and that this could increase Apple's market share.

I totally disagree with this idea. Why?

IBM did this with OS/2.

They integrated Windows 3.1 into it, and called this feature WinOS/2. You could seamlessly run Windows apps in OS/2 along side 32-bit native OS/2 applications.

This is one of the reasons OS/2 is dead, because almost no-one would develop native sofware for OS/2 because it wasn't necessary! Apps were already OS/2 compatible if they were written to the Win16 APIs. Yuck.

If Apple announces this, I guarantee Mac OS X native software development will cease almost overnight. And the problem would be amplified with Apple because, a) Apple has a very small % of the deployed hardware out there (OS/2 failed even though it ran on PCs), and b) the performance gap would be even worse than with WinOS/2 because the x86 Windows code would have to be emulated.

I've seen a number of people suggest this "RedBox" plan over and over since Rhapsody and the YellowBox (Cocoa) / BlueBox (Classic) plan was announced in early 1997.

In my opinion, the high price of VirtualPC (mostly due to the cost of the Windows license) is the only reason Apple is still in business today.

FreeMcOwen.com – Help us stop a great injustice!!!

FreeMcOwen.com - Help us stop a great injustice!!!

Do the people against McOwen have no soul at all? Why would they do this? Why should this person spend 120 years in prison and be fined over $800,000 for doing something that caused no harm?

I'm not saying he should have done what he did, but for crying out loud do these people not have any common sense, common decency or honour?

The Register

Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion, right next to Heathen and Atheist. Wild!

ANN: Professional WebObjects 5.0 with Java

I'm proud to announce today that a new WebObjects book is on the verge of hitting the shelves:

I contributed one and a half chapters of material... Chapter 11, Direct To Web and Rules, and about half of Chapter 10, Direct To Web and Templating. Max Muller, a co-worker, wrote a great case study about NetStruxr, found in Chapter 15.

I'm very excited about this book, I believe it will be a big help and a big step for the WebObjects community, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

For the forseeable future, a link to this book will appear on the right margin of this site. I hope you don't mind the jarring colour, the red cover doesn't exactly go with this site's template, but c'est la vie!

If you purchase this book, please buy it via the link above or by clicking on the book cover in the margin to the right. The link contains an Amazon Associates ID -- when you buy the book via that link I get a referral fee via Amazon. Your support is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I've been under NDA since the beginning of my involvement in this project. It sure is nice to be able to finally share this with you!