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Article about Apple licensing OSX (Opinion article)
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I didn't see the Intel switch coming, but I really don't think Apple is going to market Mac OS X to any pc manufacturers any time soon.
The article said that the hardware inside a Mac isn't special, but I disagree. It is special since that is what Apple has chosen and this that is what Apple has made work with Mac OS.
By releasing Mac OS all sorts of hardware would have to be supported.
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I don't want Mac OSX running on a Dell. I don't want Mac OSX running on a H/P. I don't want it running on anything other than an Apple.
Part of the reason that the Mac brand is so popular right now is because of its aesthetic appeal. You're not just buying an elegant operating system; you're buying an elegant computer. I don't think it's going to happen, but who knows in ten years?
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The Intel switch was surprising, but it didn't go against Apple's entire business model. This article seems to assume that companies somehow survive on market share, which Apple has proven is not the case. You can make more money selling your stuff to three people than you can giving it away to a million.
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Was this guy alive and conscious in the days of the Mac clones? It was a dismal failure, and the second Jobs came back to Apple he killed it. I know it wouldn't be exactly the same, but its pretty close. There's a very very good reason Apple has chosen to keep as many things under their control as possible. Once you lose control of any aspect of your product, you lose control of the experience the customer has with your product. And the experience you have with an Apple product is at least half of its appeal, if not more.
This guy is just another nerd who can't see past shiny plastic and throbbing buttons. He doesn't understand the Mac experience, and he never will. There is a reason why he's sitting at his PC in his underwear writing meaningless articles for some crappy publication instead of running a multi-billion dollar cultural icon of a company like Apple.
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Originally Posted by driven 
Originally Posted by theinquirer.net
What has Apple got to lose? Zero.
Yeah, WTF is dude smoking ?
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