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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.
Well put. Again, I will say it for the rest of you... Never EVER EVER. If you want to use OS X, you will now and forever be required to buy a machine manufactured by Apple. Period. Name one other hardware company that survived by making hardware and licensed software - ....waiting......waiting....
Apple would loose control of the integration, and that is the whole point of owning a Mac.
NEVER.
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but no. You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine!
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This article is serious?? (Yeah, right)
How about Cmdr Tostada: Pompous MacOS users? Hmmm...
Guess they have nothing on the Linux faithful!
No no no. That's just Darwin; not the enirety of OS X. Darwin is a CLI only BSD variant.
Pooty tweet
I'd much rather see more companies like Apple: companies that pick an OS, build nice hardware, and sell it all together.
Despite my mother having convinced me the town was on fire at 4:30 in the morning and subsequently causing me to rush outside in my boxers -- and despite my having fallen for Slashdot's new Slashvertisement jokes -- I knew this was a Fool's try the SECOND I saw it. Hah, i love it!
The next comment I write will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Shoot. I saw this story directly on MacObserver on 1 April, and immediatly dismissed it as an April Fools prank. Now, a few days later, I go to /.Apple for the first time in a week, and almost fall for it. (My initial impression was 'woah, maybe MacObserver was right, and it wasn't a prank!' Until I read that it was from MO, and noticed the posting date.) Had me fooled for a good 5-10 seconds...
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
IBM (OS/2), Amiga is going to try it "soon", Palm (granted now they are breaking apart the OS and hardware divisions), and there are others
A harder question is name another company besides Apple that has been successfull with proprietary hardware and software....SGI and Sun are both currently dying slow deaths.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....