Re: [CS-FSLUG] NI: OfB.biz: Apple’s DRM Move: The Work of a Ulysses?

[Timothy Butler]

>
> Piracy has worked to MickySoft's advantage in the past, and it may  
> do the same
> for Apple......no?

I don't think it will. Apple is a lot different than Microsoft. The  
vast majority of Apple's profits come from hardware, rather than  
software. I fully expected Apple to make it hard to make x86 Mac OS X  
run on non-Macs for this reason; I can't say I expected them to use  
TCPA to do so... I thought they might just make the x86 Macs have a  
very strange architecture (which would have been really annoying).

I don't think Apple can make money on Mac OS X as a software product,  
so having it pirated would not likely create new customers... at  
least I doubt it would.

What might prove useful for Apple, though, would be to offer a live- 
cd Mac OS X that would run on all PCs. Run it, see what OS X is like,  
then buy a Mac if you like it.

     -Tim

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