Comment Apple should leverage Vista's weakness & cheap (Score 1) 615
So I don't get this, your primary competitor just fumbled their latest major release, and clearly people like Apple's software, so why not really let the masses get their hands on it cheaply, get them addicted now while they are really looking for alternatives.
So IMHO Apple should turn this into an opportunity, spec a middle of the line hardware spec for 3rd party PC vendors, and then offer an approved version 'Mac OS X Lite' which is really cut down but only works on the 3rd party hardware. Sell it for the same price as Mac OS X, so that if you buy a clone you'll always have to buy the lesser version.
This way Apple controls the differentiator. It seems they would be excited about extending their market share, I bet they probably would net the same kinda profit off a mac mini that they would by selling OS to a 3rd party vendor.
And if they were really thinking about this strategically, they would require the cloned PCs to have a nice 3D chipset so that game companies start to see their platform as a more appetizing one to build games for.
So IMHO Apple should turn this into an opportunity, spec a middle of the line hardware spec for 3rd party PC vendors, and then offer an approved version 'Mac OS X Lite' which is really cut down but only works on the 3rd party hardware. Sell it for the same price as Mac OS X, so that if you buy a clone you'll always have to buy the lesser version.
This way Apple controls the differentiator. It seems they would be excited about extending their market share, I bet they probably would net the same kinda profit off a mac mini that they would by selling OS to a 3rd party vendor.
And if they were really thinking about this strategically, they would require the cloned PCs to have a nice 3D chipset so that game companies start to see their platform as a more appetizing one to build games for.
- celer
