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Is Piracy the Pathway to Apple Profit?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finally-step-two-is-revealed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over at Apple Matters Chris Seibold writes an interesting piece hypothesizing that Apple's strategy may bank on people pirating OS X for their Intel boxes."

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  1. That's going to be a neat trick by frgough · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Considering that Apple is probably going to use the DRM features of the Pentium M chip to lock OS X to Apple-branded computers.

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    1. Re:That's going to be a neat trick by Guidlib · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Yes, I guess that'll stop the crackers. Not!

  2. Re:.torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    heres the torrent:

    http://www.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=328287

  3. Apple as a Software Company? by strongmace · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why won't Apple simply put out a version of OS X that can run on any basic intel box. It seems to me that many people would purchase the OS and then Apple could make plenty of money off of not only the OS sales, but also on the other OS X applications they will sell.

    I can't see their hardware sales offsetting the profit that could be had by a large boost in marketshare that would be generated by not hardware locking in the OS.

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