Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 07:21:00

 Ni> The kind of control Apple wants on their products seems weird to me at
 Ni> times. I remember Apple allowing Mac clones in the 90s (and there were
 Ni> some Mac clones made by Motorola and Power Computing etc.), but they
 Ni> stopped that when Steve Jobs came back.  And when they started using Intel
 Ni> processors, one of their advertised advantages was that you could easily
 Ni> run Windows alongside Mac OS so you could use apps that were only
 Ni> available for Windows if you wanted to.

The thing with the 90's Apple is it was being run by the Softdrink man, John
Sculley.  During this period Apple started haemorrhaging cash making so many
different models which overlapped in features and target audience.  The
licensing fees from clones was an added income stream.  This is also about
the time they get a loan from MicroSloth to keep themselves afloat.

The first thing Jobs does on his return is eliminate the clone licensing, why
give them the tools to defeat you on your own turf.  They're more margin
driven than volume driven at this time, making less per license than their
"model" which is a computer with their OS.  The Apple II line finally gets
the kibosh here too.

Their thing here is to have a computer hardware, with their perceived
advances and advantages to it along with an OS thats rock solid. They do this
pretty well. Its definitely more stable than Windoze. Around this time the
biggest probem I see in Macs with issues, is third party hardware, and HD
failure and this mostly on ToasterMac age systems.


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