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

Background: 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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Yes
13%
No
87%
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Suspend date: Thu 31st Dec 3:59pm PST (5 weeks to go)

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 50%

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

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  1 rogerkni
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 50 weeks ago
  2 pacman
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.
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