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Thursday June 16, 2005 - 12:27PM EDT

I just want to get up and leave work right now. Today is particularly agravating. I have some stuff to do, very little though. Overall though I am tired of this place. There is nothing to complain about really it is just so boring. Only 1 more week left anyway then I am done. Not sure whether I will return or not. I'll try and do the sleep study for some cash when I come back.

Just read this litte article about Dell and Mac OSX. This is one of the scenarios that I discussed in a previous post. Buttpirates can argue whatever for whatever side and have fun with it. But if Apple would get off its niche market high horse and go mass market it could dent the Microsoft market share. If Apple allowed Dell to sell computers with Mac OSX I would say Mac OSX could easily get up to a 20% market share within a few years. I think they are setting themselves up to compete with Longhorn directly on the same hardware platform. It will be an epic battle and a good one if Apple decides to take the on the challenge. But Jobs and his pansy-ass will probably squirel back to his elitist rhetoric and shrink away from a head on challange with Microsoft. They have nothing to lose really, their market share is so fucking small and loyal that they will never lose those customers by taking on Longhorn. They have everything to gain. Become more of a software company and leave their own hardware for the niche market. Unless they don't think their OS can cut it. I can't see how it doesn't make good business sense to license their OS especially now that it will use the same hardware as most PCs. I just don't think they will lose that much of the hardware market share. They make more money on their IPOD anyway and the money from the software would be much greater than anything they evermade on their hardware. Besides they have some really good software like Final Cut, DVD Studio, the iLIfe apps that would make it a compelling choice for a consumers to use Mac OSX. I just don't get it. Microsoft has already proven that software is where the money is when they kicked IBM's hardware loving asses back in the 80's. Why in the hell is Apple still so tied to its hardware. Sure their computers look cool, but it is their OS that is the real gem. Honestly if they don't license to a company like Dell or HP, which has the money and power to not be intimidated by Microsoft then the switch to Intel chips would seem to be relatively worthless. Sure there are manufacturing gains the Intel provides that could make their computers cheaper and supposedly better power managment on the mobile pentium chips but other than that there isn't much. It would make the move to Intel chips a small move and nothing major. Licensing Mac OSX to PC makers on the other hand would be the best move. And I hope they do it. Maybe Jobs doesn't want to tip his hand yet and is keeping it mum until next year. I think if the license to PC manufacturers like Dell they could still enjoy their niche ultra-premium segment of buyers who like their cool look of their computers. I would say the gains of licensing Mac OSX outweigh any losses on the hardware side. Again I come back to Microsoft and how it has already shown that licensing software is how to do it. Besides finnally having an OS to compete with Windows on the same platform would be good for the industry. No Linux is not even close to competing with Windows, it is a piss poor desktop OS compared to Windows and Mac OSX. Linux may eventually get there and maybe the entrance of Mac OSX may help it along. Windows and Mac OSX finally competing against each other on the same platform would be awesome. It would make both operating systems better and hopefully advance OS design greatly. It would be a test of who can make the fastest, most secure and best looking OS. The seperation of platforms that exists today relieve a lot of that pressure from both Apple and Microsoft so that they can both be somewhat lax in OS innovation and can move at their own pace because they really are not competing on exactly the same playing fields. I am really hungry now. Fuck I want to go home.

Funny thing, there is a new contractor here and it has been a few days and already I can see someone getting annoyed with this person. Even though I don't like working and do nothing most of the time, when someone gives me work to do I do it and usually do it well. The reason I have nothing to do most of the time is because when I get work I actually do it and don't fuck around (most of the time). I think that I am a good employee, I just don't like working for THE MAN and bending over everyday to take it in the ass.