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Apple is preventing you from making your own netbook or phone?
by tumult 17y ago
Apple is preventing you from making your own netbook or phone?
- rbanffy 17y agoIf OSX tests the hardware to see if it is a Mac and fails on Mac-compatible but non-Apple hardware, then yes: Apple is actively preventing people from building netbooks that run OSX. It's just not a big problem, IMHO. If you want a Unix netbook, get one and install Linux, *BSD or OpenSolaris and get done with it. All three are much better unixes than OSX
- tumult 17y agoyou're not building a netbook, you're buying some other company's netbook and running Apple's OS on it.
- rbanffy 17y agoYou are building a netbook the same way a lot of companies do: you are buying it from someone else. The main difference is that you are not stamping your brand on top of it.