“If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.”
Joe Wilcox
“There's no way you can cram enough hardware into a $500 price point and make it run well for Windows XP, let alone Vista.”
Chris Pirillo
“Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.”
Nat Friedman
“They're (computer manufacturers) taking price cuts to sell more units, ... That hurts hardware companies' revenues. Since Microsoft charges the same for their products regardless of what PC makers do, that price elasticity helps them.”
Kevin McCarthy
“Most of the hardware suppliers sell Linux and Windows systems, so they really do not care which one a customer uses. Dell began pushing Linux most recently, so it might have the most to gain.”
George Weiss
“The big unanswered question in the market is whether Apple hardware could successfully sell with Windows on it, and by successful, I mean be competitive to a degree that it could grow Apple's hardware share massively.”
Rob Enderle
“They have a great hardware product, but they've been shut off from businesses and consumers who want to run PC programs, and now they have the software that will allow that.”
Ted Schadler
