Actually, I agree with you, Ben.
Ben Ruset wrote:
:: Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
::
::: Yeah, 6% could very well be a lot of units, but it still a small
::: slice of the pie! And remember, we're basically talking Windows vs
::: APPLE, here. APPLEs OS could ship on Gateways, Dells, and
::: HP/Compaq, etc. too.
::
:: For Apple to start to ship on mainstream machines, you'd have to see
:: far more driver support from 3rd parties.
::
:: Microsoft realized that 9 out of 10 crashes in Windows are due to
:: shitty drivers written by hack programmers. The whole WHQL thing was
:: created by Microsoft to solve the problem, and even then, they still
:: stink.
::
:: Once you start diluting OSX with crap drivers, it's going to become
:: just as awful as Windows is. The idea that the OS and hardware are
:: so tightly integrated together that things "just work" is a huge
:: selling point for Apple.
::
:: I reloaded Windows on my laptop and spent about an hour and a half
:: downloading and installing drivers to get it to work. When I bought
:: my wife's Mac Mini, I can have the OS installed and everything
:: configured in 15 minutes.
::
:: Finally, Apple makes a really healthy profit on their hardware. If
:: you unbundle the OS from the hardware, what's the incentive to buy
:: Apple hardware? Sure, it looks cool but most savvy people will want
:: to get the best deal. Then, Apple has to make their margins from the
:: OS. I can tell you something - Microsoft isn't getting rich selling
:: Windows licenses.
::
:: It would be extremely stupid for Apple to unbundle OSX from the Mac
:: platform.
