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Originally Posted by kermitology
One of my coworkers is the office Mac hound, so I told him what I thought of Apple.
Basically I challenged Apple to create something new, not just improve upon something existing, and then I asked him why OS X isn't available for a regular PC.. considering they're both x86. He had no idea.
I wonder if it has something to do with the multiple hardware configurations of regular PCs? It's just UNIX.. I mean ubuntu ran off the live disc on my laptop in 5 minutes. I even plugged in random peripherals and they just worked.. no drivers. What the hell Apple?
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You can actually run OSX on a normal PC if you want, there's a way to hack it so it works apparently. Driver support is of course limited.
That could be part of it, though if they did it they would undermine their hardware sales... and I don't think Apple wants to be a software company.
Maybe they figure they can take over enough of Microsoft's share by doing both hardware and software and keeping the profit from both. If they did just the OS LOTS of people would switch I'm sure, but like you said then they have a huge QC issue with devices and drivers.