Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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NOT BASHING HERE,
But I do like that in OS X you can install it on as many computers, legal or not, without any product key...
But Windows is about a zillion times bigger, so they have to take defensive measures...
Linux is also great...it being free and such!
That's the difference. Apple's already made their money off you because you HAVE to buy a Mac to get OSX... so the cost of OSX is already calculated in to the machine you bought.
MS only gets their money if you buy a PC with Windows preinstalled. Anyone can build a PC (which you can't do with a Mac) and then just pirate Windows... which tons of people who build PCs, or even build and then sell PCs do.
Easily possible to have a Windows PC without paying MS for Windows, impossible to have a Mac without paying Apple for OSX (at least the version that comes on it).
The reason for that is, Apple is a hardware company that also produces software. Without custom hacks (OSX86) you can't put OSX on any old machine out there. You already bought the Apple hardware, and if you like your pirated copy of leopard, you are more likely to buy another mac when you need a new computer. They loose (relatively) little money on pirated software.
Microsoft, however, doesn't produce hardware. Their bread and butter is their software. They have to protect their market. That being said, WGA isn't the way it should be done, and this is a very positive move for microsoft.
it being free as in beer!
@ Jason
To add to your statement Jason, Apple also charges $150 to it's customers whenever it moves up 1/10th of a version, and you're forced to update if you want to be able to run the newest version of safari and such. Unlike with windows I pay once for that version of Windows and don't have to pay again until a completely new operating system comes out.
If Microsoft started charging for every Service Pack like Apple does then we should really be more pissed off about this WGA stuff. Like Jason said Microsoft is just trying to protect it's interests.
@Jason, you can use Mac on custom tower. You need the OSX86 project to make it work.
One of my friend got a working Tiger on his custom tower, he use all PC hardware and it work fine. World of Warcraft run flawlessly on it.
That's all well and good, I've done it, works ok once you nail down the drivers. However, Apple is even more anal about that than MS is about shady versions of Windows. Apple actually pursues legal action against people caught using an x86 version of their OS. Not to mention it's an insignificant threat to them because you're pretty much on your own for drivers or technical problems. Forums are helpful, but forget the genius bar. Also, it takes some technical shill, or at least comfort that usually comes with skill, to pull off.