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[5]: It's just common sense.
by Vanders on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 15:32 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: It's just common sense."
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I'd say that Dell did the least amount humanly possible.


While that may well be true on Dells part, they do at least ensure that the OS works with the hardware. There's no reason why, in my hypothetical universe, Apple could not contractually enforce more control over the hardware than Conanical have done.

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