IP: more on Rumors: New iMac [Boy, does Meng have it right re iSwitch!!! djf]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Boy, does Meng have it right re iSwitch!!! djf


> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:05:50 -0500
> From: Meng Weng Wong <mengwong () dumbo pobox com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
>
> a picture of the new imac is available at http://www.timecanada.com/
>
> |
> | "Every time we've brought innovation into the marketplace,
> | our customers have responded-strongly," Jobs says,
> | claiming that it might not be so hard as it sounds. "We
> | only have to attract 5 out of the other 95 people who use
> | PCs to switch, and Apple doubles its market share." That,
> | of course, would buy the company that much more breathing
> | room.
> |
>
> A lot of people with windows PCs are going to want iMacs
> once they understand the value proposition --- iMac as hub
> of all the digicams, mp3 players, etc.
>
> But a big part of the reluctance is the switching cost.
> People don't want to have to fight with Windows to transfer
> all their old stuff over.
>
> Now imagine if Apple provided, with their new iMacs, an
> iSwitch software suite.
>
> After putting the new Mac on the home network, you put the
> iSwitch CD into your old windows box.  Magically, all your
> old documents, bookmarks, and email begin to appear on the
> mac.  The internet dialup configuration also transfers over.
> The pain of conversion disappears.
>
> When it's done, you turn off the windows PC --- for the last
> time.
>
> (If you don't have a home network, you plug the PC's usb
> port or serial or parallel port into the iSwitch dongle
> which goes into the mac.)
>
> If iSwitch discovers that the Mac has VirtualPC, the entire
> old machine could make the jump, OS included.
>
> I wish I could just give this idea to Apple, but they
> explicitly say they don't want any ideas that were Not
> Invented Here.
> http://www.apple.com/legal/default.html#unsolicited

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