Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Apr 29 2022 13:09:00

 Ni> And Apple, seemingly wanting to be a hardware-focused company, decided
 Ni> years ago to start making their Mac OS X updates free for their Macintosh
 Ni> machines. Years ago, I remember Mac OS X costing about $110 for a copy,
 Ni> and was much less to upgrade from the past couple versions.  But those
 Ni> prices for Mac OS X are long gone.

In its history, Apple's OSs have been pretty inextricably tied to their
Hardware, if you control the hardware you also control whats going to run on
it, you sell a machine you've sold a copy of the OS.  Sculley's clone market,
and the more recent Intel Macs are obvious  breaks in that logic, but are
exceptions rather than the rule.

I think this stems from Jobs in particular deciding this is what you want,
you just don't know it.  I'm not sure going forward how long this will really
be viable for them.  They don't seem to have any..... innovators at the
moment.. that is innovators in the paradigm change kind of area... probably
plenty of smart people refining "current" concepts.

Spec


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