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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 As much as I hate to feed the Windows-over-OS X idea, it's worth pointing out that Apple is already a licensee of the Windows API through the patent cross-licensing deal with Redmond done in the late 90's. …
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They recently added a bunch of new stocks, included Apple's. Now I should have this thread moved to the main forums instead of Apple Outsider!
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Getting back to the important business of this thread: It seems the people who want iMacs with quad core may be in luck giving the rumors going around. And another Tuesday has come and gone without a mini refresh. And on the "Big Thing" fr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I think it'll happen within 3 years. Computers in the traditional sense, laptops and desktops, are increasingly becoming a commodity. Its getting harder and harder for Apple to distinguish their hardware f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage And I stated there may be more pure profit in a single OEM pack of OSX / iLife and iWork than on a computer. If the deal is right. You mean like the $400 that Apple makes on every iMac sold. And that wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Which Model? As a licensor, Apple can decide which manufacturers and which products it will issue a license for. It would only pick licensees which generated cash. Thought Exercise: If all the world w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dave K. Say Apple makes $400 on each iMac sold. If Apple sold OS X to Dell for $400 dollars. Dell in turn would add that price to their box causing Dell branded OS X boxes to sell for nearly what Apple Mac OS X boxes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rickag While I don't agree that Apple should license OS X, the argument Apple makes its profit on hardware may not be a good one. Look at the gross margins of software companies and I think you will find that in mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I'm not too sure I agree with this. The only problem I see with a Mac app store is that it wouldn't have the breadth of the iPhone app store because iPhone are cross platform. If I was a developer I …
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haha, beat me to it, Hobbit. The only thing I'd add to your history lesson is that Apple was also licensing the OS to clones when Steve Jobs rejoined the company- one of the first things he did to get it back on track was to kill that policy. The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MrMacke What about an App Store for standard Mac applications and games? I believe it has been mentioned before but not in this thread. However, I don't know really if that would qualify as something that "obvious" and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by philbot So we could buy OSX and install it on a PC? Like what some geeks are already doing. Sure it would hurt mac sales but wouldn't huge OS sales offset that? Apple's business model is built around making money …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hardeeharhar A game which trains a neural net for stock prediction... heh, someone is going to make a ton of money selling the algorithm... Yeah, I'm not sure how successful they'll be with it... From the FAQ it see…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dave K. Putting the Windows API in Mac OS X is stupid Putting Cocoa and XCODE onto Windows might be possible. It a lot of work. But possible.... This would hurt OS X and Mac marketshare. No more exclusivity of Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by krispie Death of OS X - no-one has any reason to write Mac-specific software any more. Nonsense. People don't buy OS X for the 3rd-party software that's available. It may decrease OS X 3rd party development, but as …
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Assuming this is the big news (alright, alright, I know I'm getting away from myself here), it would definitely be as big, or bigger, of a game changer as the Intel transtion. And worthy of Andy Ihnatko's (and Ireland's) reactions. That would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Olternaut The only windows apps I care about anymore are PC games.....thats it. If the mac OS could run certain windows apps natively then I would no longer have a reason to have a windows machine in the house. App…
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat The idea that Microsoft software engineers sit around and wonder how they can copy Apple is ridiculous, and vice versa. These companies are not ripping each other off, no matter how much the weaker of the two …
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Quote: Originally Posted by groverat How about Windows 1.0? And even now comparisons with the NeXT shelf are unwarranted, because the NeXT shelf was a file management tool, not a window management tool (like the Windows taskbar). You could d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by philbot Windows API's built into snow leopard? This is it!! It matches all the clues. Weather, software related but not exactly, not a buyout or merger...