Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The source said that Apple was in fact no stranger to the
PC market space, with by far the most number of iTunes downloads coming
from PCs and had lately begun "pushing the envelope further" with the
release of Safari for Windows.
It is understood that the first version of PC OS
X will be available both as packaged software sold through Apple
retailers and as a download on or before September 30 2008. The source
said that Apple was also talking with tier one OEMs, including Dell,
HP, Acer and Lenovo, to negotiate the release of notebooks and desktops
with pre-installed versions of PC OS X.
When asked if PC OS X would be offered as an optional download with the
next update of iTunes, the source looked thoughtful but said nothing.
When asked if Linux could be a possible threat to Apple's PC operating
system aspirations, the source said: "Linux has had more than a decade
to make an impact on Windows market share without success, so why
should we be worried."
It is believed that upon hearing the news of Apple's move into the PC
space, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child
initiative, has made efforts to re-establish the ties his organisation
severed with Intel early this year. Mr Negroponte is believed to be
keen to get a cut down version of PC OS X onto the OLPC XO computers as soon as
possible.
Despite the best efforts of iTWire, neither Steve Jobs nor Fake Steve Jobs could be contacted for further comment.
OK - time to come clean now that most time zones ticked over to April 2. This story is actually an April Fool's joke (as if you didn't already know). I must, however, express my surprise at the number of people who were taken in by it. One forum reported that PC users were actually searching the Web to see if they could source beta copies of PC OS X! This suggests to me what I've long suspected - PC users really would love Apple to make its operating system available to the wider world. Unfortunately, there's not much chance of that happening - or is there?
David Bass
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