Apple is in the business of making money off of its Music business. They got there by making a better end-to-end offering and tailor their business to the needs of the majority of consumers. They started by making iPods Mac only… and had to adapt.

If whatever this is is released as Windows only… so be it. The market share for Windows is 90%+ when you look at the worldwide market.

What are your thoughts on exclusive titles for gaming consoles?

Just because something is better for the consumer… doesn’t mean it’s better for the business. If Toyta gave away all of their cars for free… everybody would love it… but the business would go under. I’m all for Microsoft to keep certain apps private to Windows.

@thattalldude – agreed on not being tear-worthy (that’s why I originally thought giant onion or doomsday device), but it could be really, really cool, we’ll have to wait and see.

@anon – because of the fact that most of the other big boys play nice with potential customers and release software cross platform. I understand Microsoft’s thinking in not doing it, but think it’s rather silly.

If they have some software that is truly excellent, they should make sure as many people as possible can use it. It’s little things like that which could help them shake the ‘bad guy’ image we’ve seen from them in recent years and has very much been put on display during the recent Yahoo/MSFT talks.

In my mind, it makes absolutely no sense to do this. Go get yourself some virtualization technology, get a copy of windows and stop your incessant crying. Either that – or just stop complaining.