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Originally posted by drew
Because they would stop selling high margin hardware and be forced to bloat the OS for the lowest common denominator hardware like MS. That's stupid business sense. Apple's renaissance started when Jobs came back and killed the clones in 97. |
I don't think I agree with this - if they would come out with a version of OSX for PC's, I'd probably buy a copy tomorrow, just to see if it really did work any better. I understand your point about having to write drivers for every goofy piece of hardware out there, and the possibility for "bloating the code", but to suggest that anything in a G5 is so superior, hardware-wise, to a PC, is wrong, too. They've become a kludge of off the shelf components, just like any other machine.
Frankly, as Gilwave has brought up, I've never quite forgiven Apple for killing the clone market, as that proved once and for all they simply couldn't compete - the clones were instantly better machines. If Microsoft started locking people out of the hardware side of PC's, I don't think anyone would be as benevolent to them.
If the G5 (or equivalent desktop, expandable machine) ever goes away, that's the end of the Mac as a professional machine, unless we're all going to run PT on an IMac.
John