Boot Camp : Daring Fireballl Agrees
Posted on April 10, 2006
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It’s one thing to know you’re right, it’s quite another to have the pundits say so too, by saying the same things you’ve said only two days later. John ‘Daring Fireball‘ Gruber agrees with my assessments of the impact of Boot Camp in Several Asinine and/or Risky Ideas Regarding Apple’s Strategy That Boot Camp Does Not Portend:
If this growth is driven by Boot Camp (and/or Parallels Workstation, or VMware for Mac, or an Intel-native version Virtual PC, or any other means of running Windows on Mac hardware), Microsoft may not even “lose” anything at all, because customers driven to the Mac for this reason must also buy Windows if they want to run it.
Boot Camp doesn’t pit Mac OS X against Windows, and so it doesn’t pit Apple directly against Microsoft. What Boot Camp does is pit Mac hardware that can run both Mac OS X and Windows up against all other PC-hardware that can only run Windows.
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If Apple takes a few additional market share points, it will be at the expense of companies like Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Sony. What’s essential to note is that they’re not just going after any and all of the PC market — they’re going after the high end, which is to say, the profitable end.
Would’a been nice to get the attribution though (just kidding John, really).
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