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OS X for Intel
gbooker writes "According to Mac Observer, Apple has announced that they will release a version of OS X for Intel." Guess all those pompous
Mac Owners will have to share their precious OS with us heathens.
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3. Allow other vendors to sell compatible hardware, maintain standards similar to the PC-99 standard. Get money off the OS licensing.
Yes, we all saw how well that worked back in 1995-1997.
Like it or not, approve of it or not, right now Apple is a hardware company. Their software-- great though it is-- exists to drive sales of their computers.
I think there's a strong argument to be made right now that Apple's sales aren't being hurt by the differences between the Mac hardware and PC hardware. The G4 Cube was the only Mac in recent years that didn't sell faster than they could make 'em, and Apple dropped it faster than a... fast... dropping thing.
Apple keeps prices high through three basic values: quality, coolness, and scarcity. People buy Macs because they're great computers, or because they or their software are cool, and that's where your demand comes from. Scarcity keeps the prices high.
If Apple were to change their strategy to a software-only model, they would be sacrificing two-and-a-half of those three things. That'd be bad all around.
No no no. That's just Darwin; not the enirety of OS X. Darwin is a CLI only BSD variant.
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