Comments on: Want to eliminate Psystar? License Mac OS X

Apple is still battling the maker of a computer using its operating system. Might its conflict be resolved if it simply dumps the lawsuits in favor of a licensing plan?

[kcotham]

Look people, if you want to use the Mac OS X operating system, buy a Macintosh. I've been a student, earning no more then $25K a year my whole life. I've owned several Macintoshes. If I can afford one, so can you tech writers, IT pros, whatever your occupation is. The long and the short of it is that Apple WILL NEVER LICENSE THE MAC OS AGAIN! So, stop being such a cheapskate and buy a Macintosh. If Apple were to do what you people want them to do, they'd lose so much money it would likely put them out of business. And if it does that that, NO MORE MAC OS X! Apple is first and foremost, a hardware company. It has been like that from the start. Granted, they are shifting more to generic hardware in the computer part of their company. More is the pity, because the innovations that Apple used for all these years have, for the most part been superior to the off-the-shelf "standards" that the IBM-compatible world used. And some of the "standards" used now, were pioneered by Apple. So, unless you want a slew of generic PCs with only Windows and the *nix crowd to choose from, BUY A MAC!

[malogato]

What standards would those be? USB? - that's an intel invention for the most part. Yeah, they let apple get in on that so that it'd be available on the apple platform..Mac zealots think that the fact that apple was allowed to participate in the creation of usb means they pioneered it. If that's so, why does apple not own the patent on USB? Firewire? Hah.. do you know how little it's actually used, and both sony and TI worked on that, with Sony having the strongest hand in actual testing. DVI? oh, wait.. apple uses a proprietary display port for the most part. Intel processors? Well, obviously that's not a standard that mac has embraced. TFT LCD Screens? Apple was the last of the laptop manufacturers to embrace active matrix. Can you tell me a "big" standard that apple actually pioneered? They didn't get behind MP3 first.. it wasn't their idea. They didn't invent the portable media player (I had one 5 years prior to the invention of the ipod)... Even their operating system is just a reworking of SOMEONE ELSES product.

Name one current "standard" that's been "pioneered" by apple that doesn't have a counterpart that is MORE popular.

Portable music players? Not pioneered by apple
Firewire? USB is far more pervasive (and with usb3... will be INCREDIBLY faster)
Optical drives? Nope, not apple.
BluRay, DVD, flash drives, digital cameras, cell phones.. all not apple.

I had a multitouch cell phone that played music (mp3) and could surf the web 3 years before the iphone came out.
I had a 3g version 3 years before the iphone3g came out too..

Apple even at one point was saying they didn't think "3g" was important...
But then again, apple was also saying that the G5 processors were more powerful than intel "core" processors as recently as two months before they decided to start using them.

Remember the fiasco about apple claiming to have the worlds fastest computer? The apple ads were banned for false advertising.

For the record, the coreduo was released on January 5th, 2006.
The core2duo was released on August 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXH2IDc67Bs

[Waam]

If they continue to make money selling Mac OS X on Macs, I don't see why they would change that.