WoW !!! Mac/ 10.4.1 is NOW Available for Bootleggers !!! WoW...
Well, just off the top of my head, this could possibly mean two things:
Steve Jobs and Apple just committed suicide for the Mac platform, its iPods ALL THE WAY.
Or Intel has licensed the Mac platform for ALL users !!!
I suppose the new Mac/ Platforms could be so hot people will buy it anyway, but there would have to be major optimizations in the system to get people to buy new OS.
Or I suppose Apple may plan to use the CPU serial ID to go after the bootleggers, after all I guess they are the same people that bootleg music !!!
You know it should be pretty easy to trace the bootleg copies back to the original Mac/s !!!!!!
So that's it Apple's legal department was getting lazy so they decided to give them something to do.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6012/
Report: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hits piracy sites
Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 12:14 PM EST
"There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components," Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days. "The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs... I estimate that we?re down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer-to-peer piracy networks. (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.) If I can think through this stuff, Apple?s management can think through this stuff. This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I?ve ever seen."
"According to reports, Apple?s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed... Given Apple?s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple?s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ?05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation. As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs. Apple?s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that?s what they?re doing. It?s a try-before-you-buy deal," Harrell writes.
Steve Jobs and Apple just committed suicide for the Mac platform, its iPods ALL THE WAY.
Or Intel has licensed the Mac platform for ALL users !!!
I suppose the new Mac/ Platforms could be so hot people will buy it anyway, but there would have to be major optimizations in the system to get people to buy new OS.
Or I suppose Apple may plan to use the CPU serial ID to go after the bootleggers, after all I guess they are the same people that bootleg music !!!
You know it should be pretty easy to trace the bootleg copies back to the original Mac/s !!!!!!
So that's it Apple's legal department was getting lazy so they decided to give them something to do.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6012/
Report: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hits piracy sites
Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 12:14 PM EST
"There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components," Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days. "The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs... I estimate that we?re down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer-to-peer piracy networks. (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.) If I can think through this stuff, Apple?s management can think through this stuff. This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I?ve ever seen."
"According to reports, Apple?s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed... Given Apple?s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple?s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ?05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation. As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs. Apple?s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that?s what they?re doing. It?s a try-before-you-buy deal," Harrell writes.
Comments
Originally posted by onlooker
It's a good play to get windows users to see, and use the Mac OS in action before they release versions that run only on new Macs. Smart move Apple.
I hope you are right and they can do that, "run only on new Mac/s."
You know this is the fullfilement of what I have been telling Apple to do, the "Poison Pill", which I have been asking for since 1999.
This is not exactly the way that I thought they should do it.
Lets hope it IS a poison pill -- for Microsoft !!!