On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:01 PM, mike wrote:
Apple would eat their own shorts before doing that. They don't make money off the OS, they make it off the hardware that runs it. Not to mention the kind of support they'd have to engineer for all those new motherboards..
I agree that the concept is a bit hard to swallow. That being said, there are an awful lot of Windows users and computers out there. Vista has not worked out that well for MS. What does a copy of Vista cost at the retail level? How many copies of OS X could be sold at that price or lower, which I believe is higher than what Mac users have normally paid. Also, isn't Apple moving heavily into selling a lot of "fluffware" these days what with the iPhone, the iPod and Lord knows what other "Girly Man" (just quoting the Governator) type devices being developed? Apple could conceivably eliminate their desktop line of computers altogether the way that their portable devices are selling.
Of course, this is all but conjecture at this point, supported by a bit of emerging evidence that suggests some kind of changes in mind at Apple.
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