OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

[Rick Quatro]

True, Apple is a hardware company, but the real money in computers is in 
software. Just ask Bill Gates. The question is, how much hardware revenue 
would Apple lose by such a move? Do people buy Apple for the hardware or for 
the software experience? Hopefully, they would gain many customers that 
would have never bought Apple hardware anyway.

For me, though, the ability to use FrameMaker trumps hardware and OS 
choices. I would consider LaTeX and Apple/OS X a serious "downgrade" from 
FrameMaker and Windows XP. My first choice would be OS X on my choice of 
hardware with the ability to run Windows XP on the same machine. This would 
allow me the advantages and experience of OS X, while allowing me to stay 
current with FrameMaker. My second choice would be a Mac that could easily 
run Windows XP. It looks like this second choice is becoming a reality.

Rick


> At 5:13 PM -0400 4/6/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
>>And I think that the increased popularity of OS X would cause Apple's 
>>hardware sales to increase as well.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. That's the tough call. It didn't work in the "clone" 
> era, and I'm not sure it would now. Don't forget that Apple is first and 
> foremost a hardware company. Revenue is tied to iron, not OS X. As a 
> shareholder I pay attention to this a bit more than casually.
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