Star Apple Seeds New Mac OS X Leopard Build
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Aug 2007 19:54 UTC, submitted by SK8T
Mac OS X Apple appears to be accelerating seeds of Mac OS X Leopard to developers. After only 5 days since the last seed (9A500n), Apple has issued a new version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to developers. The latest seed is listed at build 9A527 (client) and 9A528a (server), and reportedly list a number of less significant 'known issues' compared to prior seeds.
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MollyC
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2006-07-04

"It would bring them more cash than selling it bundled with Macintosh hardware ever."

Well, in the 90's there was a Mac clone market. Companies like Power Computing made their own hardware that ran Mac OS. When Jobs returned to Apple, one of the first things he did was to kill the program because the Mac clones were cannibalizing Apple's Mac sales (many were of the opinion that the clones were not only less expensive, but indeed better than Apple's own offerings). If Jobs were to now decide to sell OSX to PC makers, it would be complete reversal of his policy (not that it isn't possible).

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing

Edited 2007-08-26 19:36

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daniel_iversen Member since:
2005-07-16

But all of that was before Apple found the holy grails of IPods, ITunes (and soon ITV and IPhone), right? ;)

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tyrione Member since:
2005-11-21

Having worked during the NeXT/Apple transition and beyond it was clear that the sales Power Computing generated was cannibalized pre-existing Apple sales. Steve had more than one Town Hall Pow Wow about this reality and canned this program as it didn't "expand" the Mac platform.

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skingers6894 Member since:
2005-08-10

While that is true, this is a little different.

The Power clones were PowerPC based and so expanding the potential base of Mac users was still an uphill battle. Switching to the Mac platform still required you to purchase a new machine.

Now OS X could be made compatible with the great majority of machines already out there with virtually no effort. Switching to Mac would be as simple as an OS purchase.

Personally I don't think Apple need to do this but it's not the same as the PowerPC based clone days.

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