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Marvin · Jul 17th, 2006, 4:25 PM

If apple made the pluge and made OS X open to all PC's they would need the support of the hardware comapines to develop drivers for it. If they sold it for about $100 dollars i think they would have 50% market within 10 years. The reason, its truely brillant and easy to use. Commercial apps are plentiful, even MS Offfice.

The reason i dont think they will do it; its a selling point for their hardware. Dell would love to sell PC's with OS X and probably cheaper than Apple, so the only reason then to use Apple computers would be for the design of the hardware. Also writing drivers for all the hardware would take quite a while even if the hardware manufactures wrote most of them.

Also IIRC MS owns part of Apple(they brought into the company when it was on the brink of brankrupsy), and i bet there would be hell to pay if Steve Jobs opened it up for all PC's.

@king, you are one of these people who want linux to remain the OS of geeks. Red Hat and Novel definatly dont want that, they develop a lot of linux now, if they were to go under due to no one being interested due to it being too difficut to use then linux development would slow down. Its in everyones interest to make it suitable for the desktop, more interest, more investment, and therefore a better linux.

Jul 17th, 2006, 4:25 PM	#36
Marvin Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Heart of Gold Posts: 23 Rep Power: 0	If apple made the pluge and made OS X open to all PC's they would need the support of the hardware comapines to develop drivers for it. If they sold it for about $100 dollars i think they would have 50% market within 10 years. The reason, its truely brillant and easy to use. Commercial apps are plentiful, even MS Offfice. The reason i dont think they will do it; its a selling point for their hardware. Dell would love to sell PC's with OS X and probably cheaper than Apple, so the only reason then to use Apple computers would be for the design of the hardware. Also writing drivers for all the hardware would take quite a while even if the hardware manufactures wrote most of them. Also IIRC MS owns part of Apple(they brought into the company when it was on the brink of brankrupsy), and i bet there would be hell to pay if Steve Jobs opened it up for all PC's. @king, you are one of these people who want linux to remain the OS of geeks. Red Hat and Novel definatly dont want that, they develop a lot of linux now, if they were to go under due to no one being interested due to it being too difficut to use then linux development would slow down. Its in everyones interest to make it suitable for the desktop, more interest, more investment, and therefore a better linux. __________________ "Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without trying to invent any more of it."