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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. I see . . . . by failure-man · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fry: "Is that an invitation?"

  2. Re:From TFA: Only with hardware hack by chrisnewbie · · Score: 0, Troll

    FInally OSx will start to be hacked then viruses will pop everywhere!

    Wahou! in yer fac MAc users.

  3. I can only say one thing... by CrackedButter · · Score: 1, Troll

    lets hope not. I mean a company, HOPING that the general population will steal from them in order to gain market share? What kind up stupid fucked up thinking is that? I doubt that will happen anyway once little Jimmy fails to install half life 2 on his new operating system.

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    Jonathanjk.com
  4. Re:OS X on Intel by wing03 · · Score: 0, Troll

    because it wouldn't run {insert name of favourite Windows application here}. (Although of course it would if you tried hard enough.)
    The first part is true. The second part would likely be true for me too if I didn't have to use my time to do the $ong and dan$e to make ends meet and my living wasn't so closely tied to those Windows applications working.

    I'd assume that unlike with the free OS', there was a good assortment of software that's well polished, have easy to use interfaces and easy to install for the Mac that does the same job as my favourite Windows apps.

    Hence, I figure I wouldn't have the same problems with OS X as I did with the previous two.