Created Fri 28th Nov 2008 3:34am PST by

mantis Level 7, Pro (H$4,123)

Will Apple announce the official development or release of OSX for PC by the end of 2009 ?

Current forecast: 34% chance

People have long wanted to run the Mac OS operating system on PC hardware, specifically on Intel and AMD architectures. With the advent of Hackintosh will Apple see the potential for such a market and develop or release such an OSX for PC

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14 hours ago

pmilkman Level 4, Whiz-kid (H$1,321)

predicted No (H$100 at 66%)

1 day ago

moveaway00 Level 7, Pro (H$3,060)

predicted No (H$200 at 66%)

2 days ago

andrewpmk Level 13, Psychic (H$65,385)

predicted No (H$100 at 65%)

5 days ago

brusik Level 5, Predictor (H$1,455)

predicted No (H$105 at 65%)

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fellcolor Level 15, Seer (H$261,566)

predicted No (H$1,300 at 64%)

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rogerkni Level 16, Oracle (H$651,139)

I bet NO, because Apple & Jobs have been emphatic about not licensing. But it would make sense for Apple to license its OS to PC companies in the 2nd and 3rd worlds, where its sales currently are minuscule and wouldn't cannibalize sales of its current hardware. However, Apple is probably too set in its ways to think different, so my bet is safe, most likely. (Perhaps, if the economic crisis got really bad, Apple would come around on this issue.)

posted 5 weeks ago

pacman Level 5, Predictor (H$1,954)

Besides, Apple have built a good reputation for reliability, which they control by matching hardware to software. Just try install OSX86 on a PC to see how well OS X works on non-Apple hardware. They'd lose everything that differentiates them from Windows if they lost this, which would be marketing suicide.

posted 5 weeks ago

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