On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:53:38 -0500 (EST) Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The agency I worked at in he eighties had a mix of Macs and Power > > Computing clones. The clones were always problematic, and they > > eventually ended up on the trash heap. it was Apple's idea to license > > the op sys to clones. It didn't work, and they went back to being > > exclusive. Looking at the stock price and the market penetration, I'd > > say it was a very good choice. Paul -------------- Original message > > ---------------------- From: Polyhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:07:06 +0000 > > I was a pretty big mac guy at the time of the clones. As I recall > they primarily killed the clones because they were losing their shirt by > the clones cannibalizing their marketshare. Clones were very > price-competitive with PC's at the time.... especially on the high-end. > Apple's high-end machines have always been priced very high (and generally > not perform to match the price). They've always made their money on > hardware, not software.... but their software is what makes them unique. > > As far as the incompatibilities, that's the way PCs in general are > when you don't have control over both the hardware and software. Look at > winders. > > I'm still anxiously watching to see how the Hackintosh stuff pans > out. (running MacOS-X on non-Apple PC's). I'll tell you how it turns out. Once apple gets wind of you being able to run osx on your hardware, they sue you for it, and shut down your website. fuck apple and their shady as hell buisness. > -Cory > > -- > > ************************************************************************* > * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * > * Electrical Engineering * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > ************************************************************************* > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
