There’s a great legend which has been lost to history, of a war between two colossi: one was a behemoth – a titan known as the Windows PC – and the other, the distinctive underdog known simply, and efficiently, as Mac.
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Time has been far less kind to this legend: in 2013, a quick glance at any tertiary-level institution sees an abundance of trademark white-glowing Apple logos, and a minimum of varied Windows computers. Unglamorously, the underdog won out between the young and hip – and a long and protracted battle of wits quickly gave way to boring court-case mudslinging between the victor and newer contenders.
Arguably, the decisive knock-out punch came as a result of Apple Inc.’s decision to ship its Macintosh range of netbooks and desktops with Intel processors. This gesture allowed newer Macs to run installations of Windows either separately from Mac OS X, or alongside it. Soon enough, the compatibility race was over; Mac users no longer had to beg to be able to run Windows-only applications or file formats.
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