Comments on: Could Apple Buy Parallels?

By: Fred Tomlinsonsonson

Fred Tomlinsonsonson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:06:40 +0000

> Remember CoverFlow? Apple bought that for use in iTunes 7

Apple also bought SoundJam to create iTunes 1.

> Parallels was bought about 1 year ago in a hush hush agreement
> (if that exists these days) and it is owned by Swsoft

How do you know Apple doesn’t own Swsoft? Who does “hush hush agreement” sound like? Apple does this all the time because they are really famous … it’s like George Clooney checking into a hotel as “John Smith” … when Apple wants to be quiet they are very quiet.

Apple has already said that they are not developing their own in-house virtualization software because “the R&D costs would be prohibitive” and “we are really happy with Parallels” and Parallels is featured in the Get A Mac campaign. But since Parallels is charging for their software right now they can afford to do that R&D … the project is funded right now whereas at Apple it couldn’t be until it is included with Mac OS X.

By: Goran

Goran — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:40:32 +0000

Parallels was bought about 1 year ago in a hush hush agreement (if that exists these days) and it is owned by Swsoft http://www.swsoft.com/.
I doubt that they are going to sell it in the booming virtualization market with tought competition from vmware, virtualbox, and others…

By: Mads

Mads — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:34:16 +0000

I for one would love to see Apple take over Parallels and integrate into Leopard. With the latest beta Parallels have definately taken a step towards exactly the thing I’ve been looking for since I bought my first Mac with Windows-capability (intel-mac) I have Windows XP installed via Boot Camp, and have been able to boot into windows when I need to do some work there (Visio, Outlook etc.) But now I can simply fire up Parallels, boot into my Boot Camp partition and thanks to coherence-mode, use Outlook og Visio side by side with my mac-application, how is that for seamless integration?

Thank you parallels!

By: ttrtilley

ttrtilley — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:07:11 +0000

Silly to need an extra operating system just to run an app.
I would rather Apple ignored both Parallels and Bootcamp
and put their resources into something like Wine.

By: Apple Paralellsâ€™i de satÄ±n alÄ±r mÄ±? - Mac DÃ¼nyasÄ±

Apple Paralellsâ€™i de satÄ±n alÄ±r mÄ±? - Mac DÃ¼nyasÄ± — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:10:54 +0000

[...] Google kadar olmasa da, Apple de ufak ufak, temkinli satÄ±n almalar yapÄ±yor. Son gÃ¼nlerde akÄ±llarÄ± kurcalayan konu ise ÅŸu; Apple Parallels Desktopâ€™u da satÄ±n alÄ±p Leoparâ€™Ä±n iÃ§ine yerleÅŸtirmeli mi? Yeni Ã§Ä±kan Parallels Desktop betasÄ±ndan sonra, konuyu Ã¶nce Ronald Heft Jr. kaÅŸÄ±dÄ± ve ardÄ±ndan da Paul Stamatiou. Bence de Apple Parallelsâ€™i satÄ±n alÄ±p, Boot Campâ€™Ä± resmi olarak geliÅŸtirmekten vazgeÃ§meli. Intel devrinde emÃ¼lasyon artÄ±k altÄ±n Ã§aÄŸÄ±nda, Virtual PC gÃ¼nleri Ã§ok geride kaldÄ±. Boot Campâ€™Ä± zaten Apple geliÅŸtirmedi, baÄŸÄ±msÄ±z yazÄ±lÄ±mcÄ±lar geliÅŸtirdiler. Apple de bir anlÄ±k telaÅŸla resmi sÃ¼rÃ¼m Ã§Ä±karttÄ±. Ä°llegal ÅŸekilde yapÄ±lmasÄ±n diye. NasÄ±l olsa yapÄ±lacaktÄ±-kaÃ§Ä±nÄ±lmaz. Ã‡Ã¼nkÃ¼ Macintosh’lar artÄ±k donanÄ±m olarak birer PC. Apple bÄ±raksÄ±n, Macintoshâ€™a Windows kurup PC gibi kullanmak isteyen, bunu kendi Ã§abasÄ±yla, baÄŸÄ±msÄ±z yazÄ±lÄ±mla yapsÄ±n. Apple resmi olarak bu iÅŸe Ã¶nayak olmasÄ±n. BÃ¶ylece Mac, Mac olarak kalsÄ±n… [...]

By: Andy Atkinson

Andy Atkinson — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:06:42 +0000

Apple: no interest in Virtualization for 10.5

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2277

By: Keri Henare

Keri Henare — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:11:37 +0000

I say Apple should buy Parallels (obviously offer jobs to the Parallels team) and intergrate BootCamp and Parallels together into OS X.

So that rather than accessing an emulated partition it would access the actual os partition without needing a restart.

By: Ralph Dagza

Ralph Dagza — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:42:06 +0000

So im getting my parents their first iMac (24-inch) for xmas and they still want to run windows programs, which one do you guys recommend?

Bootcamp? or Parallels?

By: Andy Atkinson

Andy Atkinson — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:36:08 +0000

I thought I read somewhere (maybe rumor site) that virtualization would be built in to 10.5 (e.g. Parallels) that would let users run Windows apps within OS X. Anyone have any links?

By: Derek Punsalan

Derek Punsalan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:08:59 +0000

I would love to see Apple acquire Parallels and put some true funding into the project. Knowing the pace of development going on at Parallels, just imagine how honed and perfected Parallels will be with Apple behind them. I don’t see how Parallels would bring in an influx of Windows related questions compared to using Boot Camp.

By: Would Apple Buy Parallels? at The Apple Blog

Would Apple Buy Parallels? at The Apple Blog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:46:28 +0000

[...] Both Paul Stamatiou and Ronald Heft have thrown out solid thoughts on the possibility of Parallels being bought by Apple. [...]

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:00:05 +0000

Because that would advocate usage of Windows, which doesn’t make sense in Apple’s eyes. =)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:50:08 +0000

Paul –

I think Apple is really set in their ways when it comes to Boot Camp. Can you just IMAGINE the influx of calls Apple’s already over worked call center would get if they had to start fending off Windows questions.

I’m voting that Boot Camp will be Apple defacto Windows option