Charles on… anything that comes along

Andrew Kantor wrote a column in USA Today in which he suggested - against any sensible evidence - that Boot Camp (the Mac utility that lets you boot between Mac OSX and Windows on Intel-based Macs) would prompt a movement of Mac users to Windows.

Wow - that’s quite clueless, it must be said. If you know a few Mac users you’d know that’s just not going to happen.

Then Jason Snell replies. And then Andrew Kantor sort-of replies on his blog, but twirls the debate around, and not in a good way. He suggests that design pros use Macs just because they always have (er, no), that business don’t buy Macs, but principally misses the point that it’s the high-spending Windows users who will want to buy Macs, because they’ll want to have the cool hardware.

It’s a consumer thing, not a business thing.

And ask yourself this, too. Apple’s got some smart enough people. Would they have released Boot Camp if they’d suspected that it might lead to a migration away? Even a tiny one?

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