Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 11:27 UTC
Whenever we talk about Mac clone makers such as Psystar, we all more or less accept as a fact that Apple is selling copies of its Mac OS X operating system at a price lower than it would have been if Apple did not have a hardware business. Even though we treat this statement as fact - recently, I've been wondering: where is the proof?
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2006-10-06
Apple is doing quite well, but how many Macs does it move every year compared to the number of Windows licenses? Basically, if Apple wasn't a hardware company, they wouldn't make much money at all in the computer business. If they, like Microsoft, centered their business on just an OS, Apple would be a much smaller company.
I don't know why people suggest they sell their OS as a subsidy - they probably charge what they consider a fair price for full retail copies of it. But then again, like Microsoft, they probably don't sell all that many full retail copies either - most come through hardware sales. That's why Psystar is troublesome.
By the way, is this another filler article? Slow day? This reads more like a glorified forum post.