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Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- Subject: Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:16:18 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
- Organization: DiS(L)organized
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In article <1118644007.683ef654de61f0c8e585a2a70f9f212a@teranews>,
Paul Schlyter <pausch.NO@SPAM.saaf.se> wrote:
>In article <lQw*bgOQq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
>timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
>
>> My main worry about the switch is that enterprising hackers will find
>> ways of running OS X on non-Apple hardware. And if they do that, and
>> dry up Apple's revenue stream from hardware sales, we could be in
>> trouble.
>
>Perhaps Apple just need to learn to sell what people wants, instead of
>trying to sustain some monopoly....
Since what people want, judging by the sales figures, is cheap Windows
boxes, that's probably not going to happen.
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