Other way around dude - Swift2

I think you'll wait a long time, dude. Jobs will never do it. Why should he? They're growing like crazy without the headache of developing for nine bazillion different Windows environments. It's like when Jobs returned: the first thing he did, the immediate thing, was to cancel all the cheap clones. They were hemorrhaging money. Sure a lot of people just like the Macs. They're cool. But there's enough people with your attitude to lose money. Unless you wanted to pay, like $500 for OS X for Windows, buy a damn Mac. It comes free.

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Thursday, August 09 2007 @ 01:02 AM PDT

Other way around dude - Mr. Wizard

It will NEVER happen! Besides the issue of the gazillion variations of hardware that Jobs doesn't have any desire to support there's also the issue of trying to compete in the 'bottom-dollar' Gateway/Dell market. Steve Jobs has absolutely NO desire to go there. The closest you'll EVER see to something like that is the Mac Mini.

Did you notice that when OSX first came out for the intel platform that everybody and his brother was beating his head against the brick wall of getting OSX to run on plain Intel hardware? And a few succeeded too. And Apple Inc. (Steve Jobs) learned how they were doing it and plugged the holes. It's not being done anymore .... the holes are plugged.... and they're going to stay that way. Apple (Steve Jobs) has no desire to be seen as a 'cheap wannabe.'

The reason Apple is on the rise is because of the "cool factor" and being able to run OSX on plain-jane PC hardware would seriously hurt that image. Jobs will never let it happen while he's still breathing.

Give it up! It ain't gonna happen!

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Friday, October 19 2007 @ 11:54 PM PDT

Other way around dude - Gorbag

Apple differentiates it's products from commodity PCs through exclusive software, including the OS, the Pro tools, etc. They are a very important part of what constitutes the Mac "experience."

Were Apple to make the OS available for commodity PCs, they would lose the primary reason customers choose Apple machines. That would change their business proposition, their pricing proposition, etc. I don't expect such a change to happen myself, but if it did, I would expect that copies of MacOS that could run on generic PCs would be protected by DRM, locked down to a particular CPU, and generally cost substantially more than the "upgrades" Apple makes available for their OS at retail. In other words, I suspect in such a world, you would find a generic PC that could run MacOS X (that is, supported the hardware DRM) along with a retail copy of MacOS X would cost as much or more than purchasing a Mac to begin with.

Apple is not a charity, they create innovative products in order to maximize their profits. That's their duty to their shareholders, many of whom are also retired and need the appreciation in Apple stock to fund their own life requirements.

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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 04:08 PM PDT

Other way around dude - brop52

Good luck with drivers on a non-supported machine. It will never happen.

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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 06:53 PM PDT