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What if HP sold PCs that run OS X?

UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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Think about the ramifications:

- Steve Jobs would give OS X a presence in the x86 market, but can work closely with HP to ensure its marketed so as not to steal sales from Apple.
- HP wins big--an exclusive deal with Apple will give it big-time leverage against Dell
- Microsoft feels the heat--might actually be pressured enough to produce a decent OS.
- Consumers win!

I think it could happen!
 
Not going to happen. Apple would lose their ass on hardware sales, which is where they make a ton of money.
 
It won't happen. Even if there is an internal x86 build at Apple, most applications would need to be recompiled for x86 processors, so there is no emulation. That means every single application for Mac OS X would need to be recompiled, and trust me, no company wants to go through the hassle.
 
That would quickly lead to the demise of apples hardware business. Why pay way more for a system that is identical except it has a g5 instead of a p4 or a64?
 
Originally posted by: werk
Originally posted by: UNCjigga
- Microsoft feels the heat--might actually be pressured enough to produce a decent OS.
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I meant from a consumer's perspective. Not just putting a shiny plasticky interface on top but actually making it easy to use, consumer-friendly without losing power. Like OS X Tiger.

 
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
That would quickly lead to the demise of apples hardware business. Why pay way more for a system that is identical except it has a g5 instead of a p4 or a64?
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People who buy an Apple do so out of brand loyalty, and they do so to get the nicely designed hunk of aluminum. If HP sold a cheap, plasticky PC that ran an x86 version it might cannibalize a few sales but it would help sell a lot more OS X licenses.

 
MS has agreements with those companies that if they (HP, Dell, etc) sold the Mac OS, that MS would no longer allow them to sell MS products. It's called soul-sourcing. You do the math.
 
Originally posted by: PingSpike
That would be a bad move for apple. They would fade (even further?) into obscurity.
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Why? Because they would have an exclusive deal with the second largets PC maker in the world?
 
Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Think about the ramifications:

- Steve Jobs would give OS X a presence in the x86 market, but can work closely with HP to ensure its marketed so as not to steal sales from Apple.
- HP wins big--an exclusive deal with Apple will give it big-time leverage against Dell
- Microsoft feels the heat--might actually be pressured enough to produce a decent OS.
- Consumers win!
- Robots try to drill Jobs' brain but his lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal.
- King Arthur congratulates Jobs for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals his accomplishments.

I think it could happen!
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Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: PingSpike
That would be a bad move for apple. They would fade (even further?) into obscurity.
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Why? Because they would have an exclusive deal with the second largets PC maker in the world?
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That would drive HP out of business. Apple doesn't have nearly as much of the market to be able to jump that deep so fast. If HP started offering nothing but Apple OS's, they'd go out of business. Their sales would fall WAY off, company stock would take way too much of a hit, the investors that didn't go broke would pull their funding so that they *don't* go broke and the company would be forced to close.

Simply, there are too many people whose first decision on what computer to buy is the OS choice and not enough people who consider, well, anything else really. You'll get almost all of HP's, Compaq's, Dell's (whoever) retail business virtually disappearing in a puff of smoke because so many of them require Windows for whatever reason (familiarity, compatibility, etc).

Not to mension the government contracts that flat-out require windows.

HP, Dell, Compaq, blah blah blah, would disappear from the face of the earth just as fast as they make the decision to only sell Mac OS's.
 
i don't reckon it'd work 😛 OS.X confuses the fvck out of people who can only just manage to use Xp and have used windows all their lives 😉
 
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