Opinion on Vista and Dapper delays

[Chanchao]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 14:44 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Ah. :-) The point is not to get loads of profit in high sales, the point
> > is to OFFER it in the first place. It adds to the desirability factor of
> > the OS as a whole.  Apple does this very well.
> 
> No they don't.  Apple isn't in the software business.  Apple's in the
> hardware business.  It's pretty much the opposite...

Of course they are (also) in the software business!! One of the prime
attractions of Apple is that they control both the hardware as well as
the operating system and a bunch of applications.  They spend A LOT of
time and effort on creating really good software like iTunes and their
bundled video editing application.

While they don't sell (for money) those as separate applications, it's
very much part of the overall 'package' of hardware AND software.  Also
OS X they sell.   Sure it runs only on their hardware, but that still
qualifies as being in the software business.

In the future they MIGHT even sell their OS for general Wintel
hardware.. (Well they COULD but if they don't then it will be to keep
the Apple brand exclusive and desirable.)

Cheers,
Chanchao