Too many people don't understand that Apple is different. Apple produces and sells an end-to-end solution for computers, i.e. both the hardware and software. They are not the same kind of company as either Dell or Microsoft; each of these companies serve a different market and as such, have different market penetration.
Saying that Apple should allow Mac OS on non-Apple hardware is preposterous. They have played this same game for MANY years now. It didn't go so well for them during the first 20 years or so. But now that they've spent billions to make Mac OS totally beat the hell out of Windows, people complain that Apple is being unfair? Yeah, who is really being unfair now?
If Apple has to allow hardware manufacturers to sell computers with Mac OS (which would compete with their business model), you would have to force Chervolet to sell their Corvette bodies to Ford so that they sell it on the frame of a Focus with a 4-cylinder engine. Why would Chevy want to do such a thing?
Ok, so there's always the argument that Chevy doesn't have a EULA; if you wanted, you could take your Focus, buy a Corvette, and transplant the body. This would be an extreme effort. Apple has little recourse other than that of contract, or in this case, EULA, and it would not be worth any litigation against individual users. Chevy never has to allow Ford to advertise that they have a new 2009 Focus that accepts the body of a Corvette, just as Apple never should have to allow Psystar to advertise that they have a computer that accepts Mac OS X.
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Agreed, Paul.
Too many people don't understand that Apple is different. Apple produces and sells an end-to-end solution for computers, i.e. both the hardware and software. They are not the same kind of company as either Dell or Microsoft; each of these companies serve a different market and as such, have different market penetration.
Saying that Apple should allow Mac OS on non-Apple hardware is preposterous. They have played this same game for MANY years now. It didn't go so well for them during the first 20 years or so. But now that they've spent billions to make Mac OS totally beat the hell out of Windows, people complain that Apple is being unfair? Yeah, who is really being unfair now?
If Apple has to allow hardware manufacturers to sell computers with Mac OS (which would compete with their business model), you would have to force Chervolet to sell their Corvette bodies to Ford so that they sell it on the frame of a Focus with a 4-cylinder engine. Why would Chevy want to do such a thing?
Ok, so there's always the argument that Chevy doesn't have a EULA; if you wanted, you could take your Focus, buy a Corvette, and transplant the body. This would be an extreme effort. Apple has little recourse other than that of contract, or in this case, EULA, and it would not be worth any litigation against individual users. Chevy never has to allow Ford to advertise that they have a new 2009 Focus that accepts the body of a Corvette, just as Apple never should have to allow Psystar to advertise that they have a computer that accepts Mac OS X.