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I've heard they are worried about brand dilution. If that's the problem, then why not create a subsidiary firm and call it, I don't know, Pear, Gala, McIntire,
by captainmuon 10y ago
I've heard they are worried about brand dilution.
If that's the problem, then why not create a subsidiary firm and call it, I don't know, Pear, Gala, McIntire, Darwin or something. Let this firm build hackintoshes from off-the-shelf components. The trick is then to remove any reference to Apple and every logo from the OS. People "in the know" would be able to buy a Pear and use it just like a Mac.
This would be really cheap to pull off, just give some people a factory and a few million dollars, and would put next to no strain on Apple proper. It's really just buying a few blessed components, putting them together, and creating a boot disk with the needed kexts. Any mom and pop computer shop can do that if it weren't for legal issues. In the next year's iteration you can talk about custom hardware / buying at scale.
- camhenlin 10y agoThey tried this before with clones in the 90s. It didn't end well for anyone involved.
- Keyframe 10y agoIt went really well for clone manufacturers and Apple with quick infusion of cash they needed. It didn't end well because Jobs came in and put an end to it, fearing cannibalisation - at a point in time when their product was Mac, more or less. Now it's different. A lot different.
- captainmuon 10y agoI don't know what you mean, the model worked extremely well and IBM PC clones took over the market completely. Oh, you mean Mac clones ;-). What I'm trying to say is it depends entirely on execution if it works or not. I wouldn't go the way of outsourcing it to others. I would make the clone company a 100% daughter company of Apple, and at the same time I would crack down hard on other Hackintoshs (legally and technically). Apple can milk their cash cow and eat it, too (aehm, I mean their cake).
- nikanj 10y agoAnd how much of the PC desktop market did IBM retain? Apple probably prefers 100% of a smaller cake.
- thesuitonym 10y agoYeah, try calling for support when Photoshop starts acting weird. "Sorry, we only support macOS."
- captainmuon 10y agoNo, it's more like Windows Server vs Windows XP/7/10, or DRDOS vs MSDOS - but with much more compatibility (just the name change, exact same code). Since they have the blessing from Apple, they could literally say on the package "This PearPC is also a genuine Macintosh" or even better "The operating system, PearOS, is A macOS". So you would say "yes, I run a macOS".