At 1:45 PM -0500 01/04/2006, Dan Stewart wrote:
And since that whole anti-trust bruhaha with MS,,, PCs can now be
sold without any OS license at all. You just add a retail purchase
to them...
Apple intends to word the license such that it is legal to run OS X
only on Apple hardware. Whether that's enforceable or not is
another question.
hum. I just checked a coule of licenses and was suprized that isn't
already in there!
I think this year will be interesting. The hackers are going to be
working hard to get around whatever Apple does to lock OS X to it
to their motherboards... Once they get a handle on it (and I
really think they will eventually), I think it will become
something of an escalating war: Hackers fix OS X, Apple breaks it,
fix, break, fix, break...
If each new update breaks it - as is rumored - then it will be more
trouble than it's worth.
Not necessarily (below). But only time will tell, I guess.
Web sites with instructions and patches will be forced to cease due
to Apple lawyers. It will be too much work to do for free, and
people won't be able to charge money for the work.
Yea, I'm sure Apple will sick lawyers on it. Gotta keep them
employeed. But where there's a will there's away. $ won't be a
problem. There are many anonymous ways to pass cash.
Keep OS X locked to Macs == Keep the Mac as a small niche market.
Exactly. It's what everyone at Apple wants. The last thing they
want is for Apple and Macs to be perceived as "common". Too many
big egos at Apple to let that happen. They like what they think is
their "boutique" status. Naturally, it's exactly this image that
keeps most people away. That, and the software problem below.
Open OS X to all x86 PCs == Explode OS X onto the scene, scare the
pants of MS, and take over the laptop and desktop world.
Never happen, for the same reason it's never happened yet.
I think the reason it hasn't happened yet is more about mass momentum
than desire. The reward for getting ppc OS X to work on a PReP is
minimal; even those systems are rare. Hopefully, the reward for
getting x86 OS X to work on a standard x86 box will be big.
Remember, people were saying the same thing when OS X was first
released. It was the "windows killer".
Not me! :)
ppc OS X is too limited by the number of machines it can come near.
And I see it as a big step backward. I'm just happy that the world
is thrilled by an OS whoze guts come from the late 60s and early 70s.
Why are they thrilled? Because the previous OS was based on
techniques that a HS student could implement.
The real reason Macs have never taken off is software. None of
the existing Windows software - and there is tons of it - will
magically run on OS X just because it's running on X86 hardware.
You're still locked into the small OS X software niche. No
business software, no games = no sales.
hum. I haven't found that to be the case all the time. In many of
the props I've been part of, software was easy; reasonable
equivalents were available.
The bigges hurdles I've seen, beyond basic performance, were
1) The inital capital expendature. In places were that matters, the
total cost of ownership is almost moot -- because it comes from
different budgets.
2) Apple ignoring the customer. We report bugs in their drivers and
kernel, and nothing gets Apple's attention long enough to get it
fixed in a timely fashion. This has given Apple a very bad
reputation.
3) The MS Phone Call And Visit. MS hears a shop is going Mac and
they pounce! When they start offering financial incentives, and
Apple fails to respond...
Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
- Dan.
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