Lostgame Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Straight from the horse's mouth (as if any other proof needed to be given, but some of you just don't get it...) Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer fielded questions on the company's upcoming launch of Apple TV and iPhone, while also talking at length about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and strategies in the retail segment. Q: On the topic of Vista and Leopard -- you made Windows available on the Mac, what would it take for you to make Leopard available on PCs?A: You mean to license Mac OS X to somebody else? Q: Yes. A: Uh, no plans to do so. Finally, an Apple exec said it and not just people here... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 [begin sarcasm] WOW what a suprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [/end scarcasim] duh? lol, but thanks for finally putting more proof, but as the conspirators say, steve jobs said there was no way that apple would move to x86 and that ppc still had a long way to go, so theres some food for thought for both sides, although i highly doubt that theyll licens os anything to pc for a long long time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 "no plans to do so" means no right now, but not forever? plans can change. And I'm not goint to shut up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacMoof Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I doubt Apple will license their OS to other hardware manufacturers anytime soon, simply because they make all their money selling the overpriced hardware, not the OS. Apple could make a huge impact on the market if they released an 'all in one' motherboard that fit in an ATX case, and bundled it with a copy of OSX and targeted it to the home builder.. why not? They already have BYOKMM, why not 'Bring Your Own CPU, HD, Case, and RAM"? A move like that, if priced high enough to make it unattractive to OEM's, but low enough to appeal to DIY'ers, would not only all but deflate the OSx86 scene, but also increase their marketshare, without hurting any of their current product lines. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I think they can offer a different version for PCs. When they release Leopard they could license Tiger for PCs. So they can continue selling their hardware with the recent Mac OS and obtain a little more from selling another OS for the rest. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Well DUH! People actually thought this would come to pass? Piff. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrogirl Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I agree with Macgirl - 'no plans to do so' is a semantic world away from 'never' or 'we're not going to do that'. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipersfate Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Yeah. If they were to never release it for PC, they would have said so. It's not saying no, it's just saying not at this time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 As they sometime have clones... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Anyone remember the PPC fanatics? The ones that would waste countless hours in PPC vs X86 threads? I remember how they laughed at anybody who even dared suggest that Apple might one day switch. It was sacrilege. This thread is just a little bit of history repeated. Apple will do what is best for it's bottom line. I think we will see OS X for the ordinary PC one day - They've already ditched the computer from the Apple. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2BAR Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 i SOOO hope this happens. No more needing to hack around to get things to work =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Anyone remember the PPC fanatics? The ones that would waste countless hours in PPC vs X86 threads?I remember how they laughed at anybody who even dared suggest that Apple might one day switch. It was sacrilege. This thread is just a little bit of history repeated. Apple will do what is best for it's bottom line. I think we will see OS X for the ordinary PC one day - They've already ditched the computer from the Apple. Yes I remeber, in those days we said that BeOS went to the Dark Side when they switched from PPC to X86 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 They should have just said "No. We never will. So screw off." That would get people to shut up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-318997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Anyone remember the PPC fanatics? The ones that would waste countless hours in PPC vs X86 threads?I remember how they laughed at anybody who even dared suggest that Apple might one day switch. It was sacrilege. This was because...back in the day the PPC chip was better than anything the x86 world offered. What happened since then was that the x86 caught up (and even surpassed) the PPC chips. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-319039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tivimac Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Well, if you read the linked article, you can see WHY is not going to happen in the near future. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/for.../03/19/8402321/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-319586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Far future? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-319611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 (edited) This was because...back in the day the PPC chip was better than anything the x86 world offered. What happened since then was that the x86 caught up (and even surpassed) the PPC chips. Oh yes, Back in the days of 2004 Edited March 9, 2007 by Rez. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-319737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I think, the diversification of their products (iPhone, Apple TV and many others in the future) means the possibility for a future (we will see how far is) to sell OSX for other computers. They reading cautiously our posts here. We are their Guineea pigs. A lot of ppl as testers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44534-a-bunch-of-you-can-shut-up-now/#findComment-320129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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