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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Welcome to the difference between being a hardware company that writes its own software vs a software company that writes its software for all hardware. People keep thinking that Apple is a software company. They aren't. They are a hardware company who writes their own software for their own hardware.
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I still wonder why they haven't transitioned to a software company.
It used to be that their hardware was unique, now it isn't. Before their hardware carried a premium, now it's priced pretty close to what Dell or HP would charge for something similar (close in some cases anyway), so they don't have that huge margin that they used to.
And the fact that people are jumping through all these hoops to put OSX on their hardware shows the demand for it.
It's been said before, OS X seems like a perfect mass market alternative to Windows if Apple would just run with it, and there's less reason today than there's ever been for them not to.
The only thing I can think of is they don't want to get into the same driver support difficulty supporting other hardware would bring that other OSes have to deal with.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
PS: btw, just so we're clear... What you were planning to do is actually illegal. Complaining about not being able to do it is akin to someone else complaining that the gas station down the street just installed an alarm system, so now they can't break into it like they were planning.
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Illegal yes but there is the question of should an EULA restrict what do with something you buy after the purchase? Personally I hate the idea that more and more purchasing software is more like renting it.