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Reminds me of that Bill Gates quote from 1998: > Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday th
by someperson 6y ago
Reminds me of that Bill Gates quote from 1998:
> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
I am sure Apple loves that Hackintosh users are in the Apple ecosystem (often developing software for Apple machines), and many will eventually start buying real Apple hardware.
Apple will turn a blind eye to Hackintosh as long as the process stays too difficult to ever cannibalize sales.
- jjoonathan 6y agoDid they ever start getting license revenue from China? I've had a few recent interactions with Chinese businesses that suggest piracy is still rampant and shameless.
- kalleboo 6y agoThey're probably still better off than if they clamped down on piracy and China decided to develop a competitor to Windows and switched to that
- cies 6y agoChina did, it's (was) called Red Flag Linux. It's shut down now. I believe this product was mainly a tactic to get the Chinese gov't a better position in negotiating deal with MS (probably regarding both cost and access to backdoors).
- egsmi 6y agohttp://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-computing-services-growing-sky-high-in-china http://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-co... "A survey conducted by Forrester Research earlier this month showed that Microsoft has already become the country’s second-biggest cloud services provider, with its Office 365 and Azure platforms." Looks like the subscription model did the trick.