QotD: Wine to Triple Mac Marketshare
Posted November 8th, 2005 @ 04:44pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: Do you think that Wine will triple the Mac's marketshare in two years?
My Answer: I, like Wil, think it could triple. However, I don't think it'll happen unless Apple gets involved with the Wine project and makes it at least a semi-official or pre-installed option, and I don't see them doing that, because then they'd find themselves supporting Wine (or their variation of it).
Update: Yes, I originally misread what Wil had said at first: I thought he was saying that Wine would lead to the increase, not simply installing Windows on another partition and booting into Windows. Dual boot systems aren't really all that great.
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Posted 08 Nov 2005 at 5:16pm #
I don't know that Wine could really triple Apple's market share. I think their market share could triple, but I doubt it would have to do with Wine.
Also, while I understand the interest in Wine, in a way I hesitate to see Apple go with it because then OS X could become another OS/2: technically superior, but why go with it because you can just run Windows...
Posted 09 Nov 2005 at 10:37am #
I do not see the point of wine for OSX, I can run Windows in a Window on my powerbook and it runs everything(damn, Logic Works!!) I need just fine. If it is not native OSX it is probably not worth using or their is a alternative program that will work just fine.
Gaming is another story. World of Warcraft runs on my powerbook native, i doubt i will be any other games that do not run OSX native or at least Linux native.
If anything Wine just supports Windows Development.