Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 19:04:12

  Re: Re: Hackintosh
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Fri Apr 22 2022 10:43 am

 Ni>> I always thought that was an interesting attitude.  Apple seems to
 Ni>> be more 

 Sp> Sculley had some odd thoughts about trying to make a system for each
 Sp> niche, until they had the market confused with to many offerings that
 Sp> didn't have sufficient turnover of any particular model.

I was actually referring to Jobs eliminating the clones, and Apple's desire to make both the hardware and the software.  But it was a bit weird that Apple had so many different models in the 90s.

 Ni>> bringing income from their software.  Microsoft became successful
 Ni>> making money from their software licensing, including their
 Ni>> operating systems. 

 Sp> Thats because of their target market though. When IBM created the PC and
 Sp> XT they basically just gave it away, anyone could make copies of it.
 Sp> There's not much value trying to compete in a budget hardware space.

I thought I had heard that IBM originally didn't want other companies to make copies of it.  I'd heard other companies reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS used in their PC in order to make clones, and that IBM had some lawsuits against the other companies, but IBM lost.

 Sp> There also wasn't a lot of point trying to out manouver Apple on their own
 Sp> operating system either.

MS-DOS came out before Apple's Mac OS (and I think even the Lisa OS) though.

Nightfox
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