Apple has just made a big mistake.... now that it is possible to have OSX on pc, why would people pay $20 or even $1 when you can get a torrent in less than an afternoon ? And if it is still complicated for the large public (but not obviously for geeks and kitties), imagine the P2P available versions in 6 months like a bootable DVD where you just have to click ? Why people would not use illegal OSX like they do with XP ???? $20 is not a solution, there is no commercial solution now for Apple. They are thinking about put a chip on hardware that interacts with OS (a palladium flavor ???) to make impossible to run OSX on different hardware than apple (but it's still crackable anyway:-)
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Apple has just made a big mistake .... now that it is possible to have OSX on pc, why would people pay $20 or even $1 when you can get a torrent in less than an afternoon ? And if it is still complicated for the large public (but not obviously for geeks and kitties), imagine the P2P available versions in 6 months like a bootable DVD where you just have to click ? Why people would not use illegal OSX like they do with XP ???? $20 is not a solution, there is no commercial solution now for Apple. They are thinking about put a chip on hardware that interacts with OS (a palladium flavor ???) to make impossible to run OSX on different hardware than apple (but it's still crackable anyway :-)