Company claims to sell Mac clone for $399
It would be lovely if this nice little company down in Miami Florida had a chance in hell of lasting. However, Steve Jobs, seems to forever remain with the corncob shoved waaay up there, and is never ever going to loosen his iron fist grip around his absolute control of Mac hardware. I am not going to deny that this strategy has it advantages. One Microsoft and Vista owners have learned with non-working device drivers. But it is a dream….one day. One could also argue, given the recent success that the absolute control and over charging (Apple tax) for their products has not been a problem. If people are willing to pay the ‘Apple Tax’, myself included, why would Steve wanna change. My answer to that is market share. When Michael Dell calls you up and says, ‘Steve, what is it going to take for Dell to put Mac OX on our hardware?’ That is opportunity knocking.
Do not get me wrong I love my Macbook Pro, and OS X, but Apple has been making some poor choices in my opinion of late.
The whole ‘bricking’ iPhones, making everyone wait a year for an SDK and then denying developers access for no good reason. Talk about a complete control freak. Apple could have the consumer phone markey locked up if they would simply get out of the draconian control mindset. The whole one wireless carrier it stupid, and unecessarily limiting your market. The obvious Apple Tax price of the iPhone is the same. If Apple had released the iPhone for $199 with minimally AT&T and T-Mobile, and worked with the other carriers, and simply not fought with iPhone developers, so we could have free apps — they would have domainated the mobile phone market by now.
Oh well, it was but a dream….like is OpenMac…
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