With the iPad Mini, Tim Cook Has Rebuilt Apple in His Image

Re:With the iPad Mini, Tim Cook Has Rebuilt Apple in His Image by to3m on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:44PM (#4694386)

I find it hard to believe. It's not that it's a bad idea, it's just that Macs seem still too much of a ghetto, and Windows is still too successful, and I'd have imagined Boot Camp to be a reasonable draw. The fate of Windows 8 may change things, but for now, I bet far, far more people bought a Mac because it could run Windows software than didn't buy a PC because it couldn't run Mac software. And I bet that this number is significant enough to care about.

But, who knows? My sample set is fairly small. I'm sure Apple have a better idea than me about the truth of any these suppositions.

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Re:With the iPad Mini, Tim Cook Has Rebuilt Apple in His Image by beagle3 on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @03:47PM (#4694692)

In 2007/2008, almost everyone I knew who had a Mac would run at least 50% of the time in Windows. But recently, they stay in OSX all the time, and most don't even have Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox installed.

The times, they are a-changing.

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