Star Why Do We Claim Mac OS X Is Subsidised at Retail?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 11:27 UTC
Mac OS X 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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RE: It's just common sense.
by Vanders on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 12:24 UTC in reply to "It's just common sense."
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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.


Why do you think that? Surely if Apple were not a hardware company[1] they would license OS X to OEMs. They could stand to make much more money selling software this way, and there would be a corresponding saving in not have to design their own computers.

[1]: By "hardware" I'm referring to computers only. Devices such as the iPod & iPhone are a different class of device.

Edited 2009-07-03 12:33 UTC

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