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Re: Oh yeah...Apple's lack of 'help'



#Naveen G. Rao wrote:
#
# Monster Smurf wrote:
# >
# > I was *very* disturbed to hear that Apple still hasn't wised up about
# > porting the Mac to Intel archetecture...you would THINK considering
# > their current financial woes that the would want their software to run
# > on 90% of the PC's in the known universe...
# >
# > I would suggest you guys hire some lawyers, port the thing, and let
# > the market sort it out.
# >
# > *OR* you can just wait...they'll change their tune the same way they
# > did w/ Linux.
# 
# Well, I think the point is that apple doesn't *want* to have their
# OS running on an intel box.  They came out with PowerPC based macs
# to replace the intel box and do just what you are
# suggesting--porting everything to one platform so that everyone can
# be happy with one box and their favorite OS.  It would be rather
# stupid for apple to port MacOS to X86 because it mean that they are
# working against themselves.
#

This assumes that Apple makes only hardware and no programs. I don't think
Microsoft is in bad shape because of allowing it's programs to be used on
hardware made by different companies :) 

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