At 11:34 AM 02/10/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
One advantage apple has over MS and keep in mind this is a HUGE advantage is tight integration with hardware. As soon as they open it up they will lose major stability. Now imagine you buy your apple software
<shrug> And their tight integration and stability has won them 6% of the market. So it's not working as a business strategy.
Here's my guess: Apple ignores the inevitable hacking of OS X that occurs and let's hard core users beta test it out on a variety of hardware. Once the kinks are worked out (and not on Apple's dime) they can say "oh well, we have to release it, there are so many people clamouring for it."
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