Including parallels in Leopard
2006-12-28-Thursday | Computer
Applegazette has an article named
SPECULATION: 5 Predictions for Apple in
2007. One of the predictions is that
Parallels will be included in the next Mac OS
release (codename Leopard). This would give Mac
users the possibility to run windows applications
side-by-side with mac apps.
This is not a good idea.
The reason this is bad is that this means that application developers can simply just create a windows version and that way have all the Mac users use it. This will kill some Mac developments and it is one of the reasons OS/2 died. OS/2 was able to run windows applications very well, so why create a native OS/2 version of your application?
Being able to reboot your machine into windows using BootCamp is a different thing. BootCamp doesn't seamlessly integrate into your Mac desktop like Parallels does.
Don't get me wrong, I like what Parallels are doing, but it shouldn't be included in MacOS by default.
This is not a good idea.
The reason this is bad is that this means that application developers can simply just create a windows version and that way have all the Mac users use it. This will kill some Mac developments and it is one of the reasons OS/2 died. OS/2 was able to run windows applications very well, so why create a native OS/2 version of your application?
Being able to reboot your machine into windows using BootCamp is a different thing. BootCamp doesn't seamlessly integrate into your Mac desktop like Parallels does.
Don't get me wrong, I like what Parallels are doing, but it shouldn't be included in MacOS by default.
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