Good thing they found this minor issue in time! I'm sure if they are only finding small stuff now, I'm sure the final product will be bug free. With no major issues to ruin the day of the users.
When the switch to Intel happens, Apple hardware will have the same relationship to other people's hardware that Johnny Walker Red Label (duty paid) has to Johnny Walker Red Lable (not duty paid)"
Well. That depends a great deal on how the Mac platform looks like after the switch of processor. At this stage everyone seems to think it's pretty much gonna be a standard 'PC' box with a chip that allows Apple to lock Mac OS X to their hardware (until someone cracks it anyway).
But the possibility of Apple making their own platform is still around in my book. It really depends on how much compatibility with the rest of the world they are going for. Obviously there is no question that most of the stuff will be just as standard as the current Apple hardware is. But that don't mean that Intel-based Apple hardware will be become completely the same as every other Intel-based PC out there. I suppose time will tell on that one.
This move COULD be a first hint of Apple reconsidering their stand on licensing their OS out and trying to make money off that. But it could just as well be an attempt to get some PR and capture some future users of their hardware by getting people used to Mac OS X on this low-cost platform.
Whatever happens 2006 (and 2007 I guess) is going to be an interesting time in the saga of Apple I'm sure...
Well I find this interesting due to the fact that Apple seems to be open to allow other hardware vendors to use their OS. Since the days of cloned pre-Mac OS X PowerPC macs Apple have denied that anything other than their hardware would run their OS... So unless Apple was only offering Darwin this seems like a rather significant change of policy from a company they supposedly is gonna hardwire their OS to their hardware.
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Good thing they found this minor issue in time! I'm sure if they are only finding small stuff now, I'm sure the final product will be bug free. With no major issues to ruin the day of the users.
Well I find this interesting due to the fact that Apple seems to be open to allow other hardware vendors to use their OS. Since the days of cloned pre-Mac OS X PowerPC macs Apple have denied that anything other than their hardware would run their OS... So unless Apple was only offering Darwin this seems like a rather significant change of policy from a company they supposedly is gonna hardwire their OS to their hardware.