Larry, I think it would not cost Apple that much money if Dell or some other manufacture certifed a machine with apple certifed drivers. They the manufacture would bare the costs for support and certifying the driver. I think this approch makes too much since. I have found in business what makes since does not always meet the neads for businessies. That being said I think apple could also up the cost of OSX for non-Apple hardware for a higher cost. Apple will have to change there view or go the way of BeOS and Amiga. Then again Apple used to offer there older System OS (System 5,6 and 7) for free until they figured they could charge for it. I think with switching to Intel and using EFI I don't know who they (Apple) are going to control people from installing OSX onto non-Apple hardware. We see this today with VMware installs and people installing on non-apple laptops. I think apple has a good alternitive to Windows with a strong user base and people are willing to switch.
Mike Miller > Apple isn't going to offer OSX for other manufacturers products any > time soon because: > 1. Apple makes money from hardware sales > 2. The support cost of third party h/w would exceed the gross revenue > from sales of the OS > 3. Apple would not control the solution. > > but the OEM contracts that require > 1. a windows license for every CPU shipped > 2. no bare hardware sales > 3. or else no windows license period > > need to go, they are anticompetitive, and are a leading example of the > abuse and maintenance of the monopoly. > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
