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[7]: It's just common sense.
by Vanders on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 17:37 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: It's just common sense."
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Don't get me wrong though, my vision of Apple is as a purely software company...with the focus is on strictly controlled contractual arrangements with big name vendors that allow them enough room to differentiate but not too much as to cause incompatibilities (for example, a standard motherboard with the differentiating factor is a bigger hard disk, faster processor, more memory or a better graphics card).


That's almost exactly what I'm proposing.

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