Linked by Anton Klotz on Fri 25th Jan 2008 13:14 UTC
Mac OS X This article is about new aspects of the never-ending story of how Apple is protecting MacOS X for running on different hardware than Apple's. The keyword is virtualization, which allows running unmodified version of Mac OS X as virtualized instance.
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less hardware sold
by drynwhyl on Fri 25th Jan 2008 18:03 UTC
drynwhyl
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2006-05-14

> Apple is afraid that less Apple hardware will be sold.

So they seem to think their own hardware products are so uncompetitively priced that nobody would buy them if they had the chance to get OS X for a normal cheap PC?

RE: less hardware sold
by elsewhere on Fri 25th Jan 2008 22:27 in reply to "less hardware sold"
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2005-07-13

> Apple is afraid that less Apple hardware will be sold.

So they seem to think their own hardware products are so uncompetitively priced that nobody would buy them if they had the chance to get OS X for a normal cheap PC?


Isn't that what more or less wound up happening the last time they licensed MacOS to third-party OEMs?

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