If you continue repeating things often enough you’re bound to be correct at some point. A friend pointed me to news report on news.com stating that Apple would be switching to Intel processors and the mac community breathed a collective sigh of “here we go again”.
The weird thing was that this time it was true. An awful lot of people, like myself, who’ve used Macs for a number of years simply dismissed it as another rumour to add to the pile of ones already discarded.
Apple have always been hardware manufacturers. Mac OS was simply the interface and the fact that people liked it was the carrot to make them buy the hardware. If they released Mac OS as a standalone OS running on x86 architecture then who would honestly pay the premium that Apple charge for it’s hardware?
The question for me is how are Apple going to stop people from buying a copy of Tiger and installing it on their home built x86 rig?
I had thought that maybe Apple hardware would carry a security chip that the OS has to detect before it can be installed on that machine but then realised it won’t take 5 minuites for someone to code a crack for it. Well maybe a bit longer but you see what I mean surely.
Are they going to stop them or are we seeing a new direction from Apple? Let the rumours begin.
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