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From: fudo <fudo@spamblocked.invalid>
To: All
Subject: Re: It is official Apple will b
Date:Mon, June 13, 2005 09:08 PM


In article <party-3DF768.19135313062005@news-fe-02.texas.rr.com>,
Hugh Gibbons <party@my.house.com> wrote:

> In article <120620052125245093%rag@nospam.techline.com>,
> Randall Ainsworth <rag@nospam.techline.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <party-1A4F92.18364712062005@news-fe-01.texas.rr.com>, Hugh
> > Gibbons <party@my.house.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Who says they're going to make it able to run on standard PCs?
> >
> > If you guys would pay attention, only Apple-branded boxes will be able
> > to run OS X.
>
> If they don't, they're inhibiting users crossing over from Windows to
> Mac. Why wouldn't they want to do that? Isn't most of the money in
> operating systems sales?

No, Apple makes far more money off hardware than software. I saw the
figures recently, though I can't remember where just now, but the
difference was on the order of 4-5 times more on hardware.
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