It's Now "Safe" to Buy a Macintosh
SwitchBlog Congratulates Apple on it's Most Switcher Friendly Software Yet: Boot Camp.
Now anyone can buy a Mac without feeling like they might get stuck at some point later on. My feeling is that 99% of people that buy for this reason will seldom, or never, boot into Windows. It's kind of like how people opted to buy a G4 tower instead of a G4 Cube because the tower "could be upgraded" later on using the slots. It also cost less money, go figure. Then 99% of those people never used the slots, it just made them feel safer to have them "just in case."
It's the same with Windows bootability. Apple isn't encouraging people to boot into Windows it's just saying "you can" as a safety net. If they wanted you to run Windows apps they would build a compatibility layer right into OS X. No, Apple still wants you to switch and this is the perfect way to make that happen. Rebooting is enough of a pain that people will take the time to find Mac OS X solutions to replace their old Windows software and in the process discover how much better the OS X experience can be, even when using 3rd party software. If it was a simple matter of installing the Windows app and running it right in OS X without a reboot, many people would just run the Windows App along side their OS X apps.
This will benefit 3rd party Mac developers and give them another way to promote their products.
For those who need to run Windows software without a reboot, 3rd party solutions will appear at as some point. Maybe a version of Microsoft VirtualPC or an opensource solution based on Mono or something similar.
The point is, that Boot Camp makes it "safe" to buy a Macintosh.
Now anyone can buy a Mac without feeling like they might get stuck at some point later on. My feeling is that 99% of people that buy for this reason will seldom, or never, boot into Windows. It's kind of like how people opted to buy a G4 tower instead of a G4 Cube because the tower "could be upgraded" later on using the slots. It also cost less money, go figure. Then 99% of those people never used the slots, it just made them feel safer to have them "just in case."
It's the same with Windows bootability. Apple isn't encouraging people to boot into Windows it's just saying "you can" as a safety net. If they wanted you to run Windows apps they would build a compatibility layer right into OS X. No, Apple still wants you to switch and this is the perfect way to make that happen. Rebooting is enough of a pain that people will take the time to find Mac OS X solutions to replace their old Windows software and in the process discover how much better the OS X experience can be, even when using 3rd party software. If it was a simple matter of installing the Windows app and running it right in OS X without a reboot, many people would just run the Windows App along side their OS X apps.
This will benefit 3rd party Mac developers and give them another way to promote their products.
For those who need to run Windows software without a reboot, 3rd party solutions will appear at as some point. Maybe a version of Microsoft VirtualPC or an opensource solution based on Mono or something similar.
The point is, that Boot Camp makes it "safe" to buy a Macintosh.
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