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

[Fred A. Miller]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:23 am, Timothy Butler wrote:
> > 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).

True.....and it may just end up being like that.

> 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.

Could be. And, they don't have the number of good code jockeys needed to be 
working on a number of applications for further growth.

> 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.

True......could be the "ticket" for them.

Fred

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