The day Macs use DRM is the day the company loses 90% of its customers. Why? The majority of Macs are used by creative professionals (if anyone has real statistics i would love to see them). The majority of Mac users see their computers as a tool they use to create their dream or artwork, as a way to express themselves. (come on flame me for sounding like a gay mac user) The day a Mac user tries to open a piece of stock art or a quicktime movie or aiff or mp3 and the computer says "I'm sorry you have already used this piece of swip X times, using it again or putting it on another device will violate its copyright! To obtain further rights to use this piece, contact blah blah blah" is the day most mac users will switch platforms (to what viable alternative i dont know, but im sorry linux is NOT an option for creative professionals, and I would rather switch careers then go back to using pcs and dealing with the draconian microsoft). I'm sure Apple knows this and for that reason will never include any DRM besides the basic and easily hacked DRM similiar to the ipod. Just wait for Apple to release a small tivo type device that is portable with firewire capabilities for transfering and SYNCING to a mac, just like the ipod.
maybe IBM is interested in os X because they know soon Apple will be using 64 bit IBM produced chips? I dont think they would bother ported it over now, and apple hardware CURRENTLY isn't the best solution for their software, but maybe they know something we dont about what chips apple is going to use in the next round of powermacs or xserves
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The day Macs use DRM is the day the company loses 90% of its customers. Why? The majority of Macs are used by creative professionals (if anyone has real statistics i would love to see them). The majority of Mac users see their computers as a tool they use to create their dream or artwork, as a way to express themselves. (come on flame me for sounding like a gay mac user) The day a Mac user tries to open a piece of stock art or a quicktime movie or aiff or mp3 and the computer says "I'm sorry you have already used this piece of swip X times, using it again or putting it on another device will violate its copyright! To obtain further rights to use this piece, contact blah blah blah" is the day most mac users will switch platforms (to what viable alternative i dont know, but im sorry linux is NOT an option for creative professionals, and I would rather switch careers then go back to using pcs and dealing with the draconian microsoft). I'm sure Apple knows this and for that reason will never include any DRM besides the basic and easily hacked DRM similiar to the ipod. Just wait for Apple to release a small tivo type device that is portable with firewire capabilities for transfering and SYNCING to a mac, just like the ipod.
maybe IBM is interested in os X because they know soon Apple will be using 64 bit IBM produced chips? I dont think they would bother ported it over now, and apple hardware CURRENTLY isn't the best solution for their software, but maybe they know something we dont about what chips apple is going to use in the next round of powermacs or xserves