Subj : MacOS
To : Ennev
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 11:59 am
Re: MacOS
By: Ennev to Nightfox on Thu Dec 21 2017 07:40 am
En> I think they also limits MacOS (new name :-D ) to theirs hardware because
En> it prevent them to have to support an indefinite amount of GPUs and others
En> hardware variation.
En> Modern macs rely intensively on the graphic card.
En> Marketing wise like you said, they are an hardware makers, so if they find
En> an incentive for you to buy theirs hardware they wont give that advantage
En> to others.
En> A lot of people would jump ship if the OS was available to others
En> platform.
There is the "hackintosh" community who have been hacking OS X/MacOS to install
on non-Mac PCs. It works if you follow their guides and buy compatible
hardware to build a PC. I can understand Apple's strategy of not wanting to
support tons of hardware, but I also wouldn't mind seeing more of an
alternative in the PC OS market. There used to be more OS alternatives back in
the day, when OS/2 was around and there were others coming up such as BeOS.
If Apple allowed MacOS to be installed on other PCs, I wonder how much revenue
they'd lose from hardware sales and how much revenue they could get from
selling MacOS by itself.
Also, the OS maker is typically not the one developing drivers for all the
hardware out there. Hardware makers have the responsibility of developing the
driver for their hardware. And not all drivers even need to be included with
the OS - Just drivers that might be needed to install the OS on certain
machines. With Windows, Microsoft has a driver certification process, and it's
the responsibility of the driver developer to run Microsoft's certification
tests on it, and they'll then submit their driver to Microsoft once all the
required certification tests pass.
Nightfox
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