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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

>>>That is that a patent has been discovered that allows Apple to protect the installation of the Mac OS X to just Apple-produced hardware. The patent describes a process whereby users would be able to load one of three operating systems as their primary OS and then load a secondary operating system as their secondary OS

So Apple will allow Windows (and Linux?) to be installed on their hardware, but OS X cannot be installed on any hardware than Apple's.
Seems like a brilliant idea to me, it ought to bring into the fold the people who have been on the brink of switching, but have been held up because of software availability.

Apple will probably even make dual-booting a fool-proof process (iBoot?).


2 posted on 11/09/2005 7:23:04 AM PST by GeraldP (Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)
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To: GeraldP

^^^^^^^^^^^^^Seems like a brilliant idea to me, it ought to bring into the fold the people who have been on the brink of switching, but have been held up because of software availability.^^^^^^^^^^^^

If Apple were to push their OS out the door to everybody, as much of a pro-linux guy as I am, I think they'd do some real damage to microsoft.

Linux's biggest problem is that we don't have a Steve Jobs. A master of marketing.

I've always questioned apple's vision of selling an experience, but I do understand it. Their software is stable very much in part because you have such limitations on hardware. There's less confusion on part of drivers and so on. But their price premium in my eyes has never been worth it, not for that much proprietary. If these OEMs didn't gouge the prices so much for the hardware when something went bad I wouldn't be so opposed to it.

^^^^^^^Apple will probably even make dual-booting a fool-proof process (iBoot?).^^^^^^^^^^^

Been done already. Fedora, Suse, etc. If anything, they could save alot of time/money by just repackaging LILO/GRUB like they did with KHTML to create Safari.(yes I'm aware of their mods)


4 posted on 11/09/2005 6:04:05 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (You upgraded to Linux? No, I'm not surprised your computer works properly now. Amazing, no?)
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To: GeraldP
Seems like a brilliant idea to me

No, it's a lousy idea. Once again, Jobs is shooting Apple in the head with his lame-brained insistence on being a hardware company. Meanwhile, MS will sign contracts with the OEMs that sell 95% of the PCs on the planet. Apple cannot expand its market share unless it sells to Dell, Gateway, and other OEMs.
19 posted on 11/10/2005 10:25:03 AM PST by Bush2000 (Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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