AppleInsider | Apple demands Mac sites remove OS X on x86 videos __ I think it’s time someone “punk’d” Apple by showing nothing more than a Mac running OS-X and claiming it was X86 and letting themselves get sued, then showing it was really a Mac. Har.
Is my X86 logo (above) to be the next victim of the heartless Apple legal machine?
Apple’s legal department this week sent “aggressive” emails to several web sites that support and advocate its products solely because they linked to videos showing a hacked version of the company’s Mac OS X operating system running on off-the-shelf PC hardware.
French language Mac news site MacBidouille was one of the first web sites to receive an “amazingly aggressive email asking for the immediate removal of all links to the videos,” the site reported on Wednesday.
In an editorial, the site’s publishers said that they immediately complied with Apple’s requests, but added: “we deeply think that it will not change anything.”
The site, along with others, had used the videos to support news reports that hackers had successfully circumvented Apple’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which was designed to prevent versions of Mac OS X for Intel from running on non-Apple certified systems.
I know John is convinced Jobs will release OSX to non-Apple vendors. Apple is the only company making a decent profit on hardware. At any given time their OS may support a half dozen system boards, about 5 graphics chips and a few drives. I can’t imagine what would happen if you turned it loose on those thousands of crappy designed pieces of hardware and drivers in the wild. I bet their system margins are an order of magnitude better that Dells. I don’t think the Intel switch is a big deal in Jobs mind. I think to him it’s just another vendor change.
This is the sad thing about the DMCA. In reality it protects business models not content.
I could BUY a copy of OSX, hack it, and install it on a homebuilt PC and STILL be violating the DMCA! Apple would claim they’re losing money in hardware sales. Since when is protecting inefficient business models the concern of government?!
Steve Jobs obviously doesn’t know the PC crowd – it’s a totally different ball game compared to the ‘tidy’ Mac worshippers. It’s out of control. Totally!
And as you said in a recent column of yours (I think it was you) it may even be part of a larger plan to one day come out and say ‘hey, we can’t stop it, so here is OSX86 in a box for you. That’ll be $99.99, thank you.’
I think it stinks, but it may work.
Anyway I sincerely doubt OSX86 will be as stable as people expect. MacOS has been ‘stable’ (most of MacOS superior stability is basically a legend, IMHO) because Apple totally controlled hardware and software. Software was designed for a very specific machine. Now, PCs are everything but ‘specific’. They’re all over the place, so Apple will need to get drivers for everything made under the sun for the past 5 years or so – or maybe not… Maybe they’ll just ‘specify’ the hardware the OS will run on and it will turn into a de facto standard… Overnight… But they’d better be open afterwards, and let people develop drivers, addons, apps, whatever, otherwise it may still tank.
I for one am curious to try it out.
Have you looked here? http://www.apple.com
LOL 😀
Yeah, too expensive for this wintel geek…
Careful.. if the hacker world makes fun of him too much, Steve will take his toys home and not let us play with them any more! LOL
My opinion is that the older versions of the MacOS were horrible (memory problems, multitasking, printing, error codes you could never figure out, etc), but as they started making the move to OSX, everything became quite excellent in Mac terms. I mean it is clear that the upgrade worth of OS9 to 10 is leaps and bounds over Win2k to XP and possibly even what we will see with Vista. I honestly still think XP is nothing more than a pretty 2000 with Win98 errors – but that’s me. As stated in a post above, why can’t Apple decide to push their OSx86, but with a minimum hardware requirement in its holster? I’d love to run a dual-boot so I can game and get work done, then switch over to the Mac to…….. umm…… widgets?………. well I’d just love to have a dual-boot to it! 🙂
I think that Steve’s feelings have been hurt because he hasn’t experienced this before, but in all honesty, he’s got to grow a new layer of skin if he’s moving to a common platform with people that know how to get what they want. He won’t experience the same passive negativity that is usually found on Mac help sites. It drives me up a wall when I find an error with my iBook and search help sites with everyone saying that “yes, it is annoying, but I can live with it”. If something doesn’t work well with PC users (Windows, Linux, etc) they usually figure a way to get it to work – and sometimes at the owners expense. Just my $0.02.