The Battle for Chief Moron Continues

> he may have been right on the intel switch, but that
> was actually plausible, as os x had been running on
> intel since birth, just not in the wild.

Well, OpenStep used to run on Windows, so it is not out of the question that Apple would still be able to compile to OS X UI under Windows, just as they could compile it for Intel processors. Also, there are better kernels around than OS X's strange Mach-BSD kernel. Still, they would be better off using Solaris (for which there was also a version of OpenStep) than Windows.

Whatever happens, as long as it still feels like OS X, I couldn't care less. Isn't it great that Apple has so many options? :-)

"If Apple's next generation OS -- Leopard -- was ready now the company could take some market share from Microsoft in the 4th quarter, but Apple probably wouldn't be able to hold onto it. All reports say Leopard won't be ready until 2007, after Vista ships, anyway."

ROFL, Leopard will definitely beat Vista in release date, is this guy kidding or what?

"Imagine what would result if a new Apple OS was based on the new Windows kernel rather than on Unix. It would be much more acceptable to a broad cross section of companies that wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole today."
by basing os x on a windows kernel you would lose all the greatness of the UNIX kernel that makes os x so neat and secure under the hood

Enderle's page views must be way down so he knows that there's a certain group that will read anything he writes no matter how outlandish.

You can picture the possibilities that ran through his head ... how about ...

Maybe GM will buy Apple to get at Apple's $8 bilion in cash.

No, that won't get Apple fans riled up - He was hopng to sav e it for a really rainy day but his Google AdSense dollars are slowing way down so he needed something big. Yes, MS to BUY Apple! That's it! I'm genius!

As a public service, here's what the made-up stuff he's saving for next time his page views dip:

Dell to team with Apple for home iPod.

MS to buy Disney/Pixar.

John Sculley new Chairman of Disney.

Steve Jobs & Bill Gates to do Odd Couple reality show with Bono as man servant on Dr. No island.

MS Orgami is ipod killer.

Now, that should hold you so you do NOT put money in his pocket by reading his head wound spillage.

Let TWAW scan his ramblings and summarize but NEVER NEVER EVER go to his page unless we all agree to sychronize our ONE spoof IP address.

"Imagine what would result if a new Apple OS was based on the new Windows kernel rather than on Unix. It would be much more acceptable to a broad cross section of companies that wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole today."

What an ass, don't even get me started!

"Linux represents a growing threat for both firms as well and Apple..."

What an illiterate ass. The article is about Microsoft and Apple. Now a mysterious third party has entered the fold. Spooky.

"What if Apple worked with Microsoft to make the iPod 'Plays for Sure'"

What an ignorant, illiterate ass. "Plays for sure" doesn't play for sure, the iPod does. The summary for this piece seems to be that Apple should drop all their technologies and switch over to Microsoft technologies, because "we all know Microsoft technologies are so much better." Yeah, Ok

I wonder how many wheelbarrows of cash Bill Gates left on this ass's front lawn.

he may have been right on the intel switch, but that was actually plausible, as os x had been running on intel since birth, just not in the wild.

But this article was one of the dumbest things I have ever read about Apple...
A windows kernel? is he crazy? there is a reason we don't use it... it sucks in comparison.

In response to sarcasm from Arthur Barnhouse:
"Or iTunes Music Store. I can't think of anything more open-source than iTunes Music Store. Imagine the nerve of other companies having their own standards."

I think you're confusing support for open standards with open source software. They're two very different things. iTunes and, by extension, Quicktime are not open source software but they do supports open standards for audio and video. These open standards are controlled by overseeing boards made up of representatives from many different companies and experts with experience and interests in developing the format. iTunes/QuickTime supports many of these formats (such as AAC and H.264 video). This contrasts with the Microsoft approach of developing their own standards and using their monopoly to push them onto end users.

The small exception to this is Apple's DRMed Music Store download which use their own format. However, these DRMed files are simply AAC or H.264 (for audio or video respectively) files that are wrapped with a special DRM layer. They are not a new format. This DRM is put in place to appease the record companies more than to satisfy a desire on Apple's part to push their own format (if the latter was true, wouldn't Apple have licensed it to more than Motorola?).

Oh, BTW, Rob is wrong.

Wal-Mart buys Apple. ;-)

"Think Different"

Rob Enderle is doing just that but most of you are screaming "Hell NO! We won't go!"

Do some creative thinking & break a few rules for a change.

Allow me to be the character foil here and remind everyone that Enderle was indeed right about Apple's switch to Intel -- and when he penned that column, we all called him a lunatic too.

That being said...for this column he must've forgotten his meds. Or took too much of them.