Cringely: OS X on Intel

sti writes: "Cringely's column this week argues that Apple should port OS X to the Intel platform. He makes an interesting case for it. I would definitely favour this. I've always had this warm spot in my heart for Apple but rarely had the money to pay for their overpriced hardware."

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[Graymalkin]

Why the fuck does this retarded shit keep coming up from supposedly intelligent industry writers? Wow Apple could abandon all of their supporters and turn into a software company? I suppose I should pat Cringely on the back for that suggestion? The upside for Apple is a downhill slope. Mac users as it is are faced with smaller numbers of available software titles than Windows users. Some companies refuse to make Mac ports of their software *cough*Sierra*cough*. If Mac had an x86 port little would change because it is still MacOS and said company will refuse to support it. Then you've got the problem of current Mac developers telling Apple to go fuck themselves because they're not going to spend even more money their not making in order to make x86 ports of their Mac software. While ports between ISAs using the same API isn't too terribly difficult it still requires man hours to accomplish, time is money, hence it cuts into your bottom line. Then there is the messy issues of hardware support. Apple shipping MacOS on x86 systems means having to deal with thousands upon thousands of combinations of hardware. Are hardware vendors who already shun support for any OS besides Windows are going to spend much time supporting their hardware on MacOS? Ask IBM and Be what happens when you run on the same ISA as Windows but are the under dog.

This is the nth concurrent Cringely article posted on slashdot in as many weeks, would you people fucking knock it off? Timmah: cut it the fuck out. It is getting ridiculous that the best you can do is post YACA (yet another Cringely article), there has got to be more in the submission bin than just links to pbs.com. Hasn't someone posted a story from ZDNet or Wired you can link to instead?