^^^^^^^^^^^^^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)
I think it's not having a large group of people ensuring a pleasant and consistent user experience. I use Linux, the UI and standard program and utility set still looks cobbled together.