If apple created a product like psystars Rebel EFI, and sold it for a premeium ($100) to allow installation of snow leopard, they would eliminate windows within 2-3 years. And sell more of thier “premium” systems than ever.
You're not talking about a sales model that Apple will ever use. Their sales model is based upon integrating hardware and software, with hardware being the core of the business. The software is there to sell the hardware.
Now, many people may think it's all in the software, but Apple thinks that it's "in the hardware" with the software giving that "value" to the hardware. That's the way Apple thinks about it and that's how their entire "sales model" is configured.
You can get that information from many different interviews from Steve Jobs. He's the driving force and has been for a long time, and you won't see that changing, no matter what other people think.
And since Apple is quite successful and growing dramatically at the present time, no one is going to be asking for a different sales model for Apple... :-)
I know you are correct about that. My point was that they could use the software as a lead into their hardware. And yes, I agree, Apple will never take advantage of this opportunity, and will thus be relegated to a minor share of the market, forever and ever and ever...
That underdog image is what seems to float their boat.