Why , oh why ca n’t there be Mac clones again ? The quality of Mac hardware has been steadily declining , and if a drug user is devoted to OS X and no other , there ’s no choice for hardware but Apple .
The first official knockoff experiment in 1995 - 97 was go so well , and then Steve Jobs swooped in and killed it by erect the licensing price of the operating organisation and ROMs to impossible level . And that de facto banning is seemingly here to stay . As latterly as last class , Apple VP Phil Schiller hold , “ We will not allow run Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac . ”
Now , Apple can do whatever it want . The company can carelessly delay the foundation of new Core 2 Duo processors by a couple of month , and there ’s a captive consultation that will sit there and wait . Mac notebooks , no longer desirable of being called laptops , can fry exploiter ’ laps , and Mac users have no recourse . Apple can charge whatever price it desires ; everyone will make up . And where are the Octo - Macs ? We ’ve been testing and playing with the 8 - marrow PCs for six workweek now .
permit Apple make its ironware money with iPod , and let the clones hark back , bringing forth more innovation and let people modify their Macs the way it ’s usually done in the microcomputer existence . Suddenly , the almost - infinite variety of PC hardware would be open to the Mac OS .
Sure , Apple can continue to sell workstation and laptop computer hardware , and if it ’s so great , it will continue to overtop . But let the free market settle how safe the Mac ironware really is . Apple has undoubtedly excelled with iPods ; and it would in all probability survive in a competitive market for its workstation and notebook hardware as well .
On the other hand , maybe Apple is in the catbird fanny properly now , with its hardware able to run Windows XP , but not reciprocating by letting the Mac OS run on PC hardware — at least not in any prescribed sense that would rent diverse hardware manufacturer in on the play . This is a good place for Apple , but not needs for OS XTC exploiter .
hacker and do - it - yourselfers are already on the side break away Mac OS X on Wintel hardware . But let ’s see an officially - sanctioned Mac clone marketplace where OS X and Microsoft Windows Vista can contend nous - to - head , and allow the competition between ironware vendors sort out itself out . That would be a sure - ardour way to finally get out of the quagmire of a sub-5 % market parcel for OS X.
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