Mac OS on PC
Some people don’t like Apple (me) but they’ll admit that the Mac OS is a nice piece of clean software. Our problem lies with the fact that you’re forced to purchase the overpriced and craptasic hardware that encases the Mac OS. Why you ask? Well, there’s a little bit of code embedded in the Mac OS installer that checks to make sure you’re installing the OS on Mac hardware. If not, then it shuts down and you’re left with an expensive saucer. A few of us know a way around this. It’s done by simply patching the installer so that it bypasses the hardware check and installs Mac on a free hard drive that you have lying around. I suggest installing it on different hard drive instead of a partition for obvious reasons. Having multiple operating systems on one physical disk can lead to issues later on should something fail.
Anyway, there’s a small company out there now who claims that Apple is violating monopoly laws by offering the Mac OS only on Apple computers. So they’re patching legitimate copies of Mac OS and putting it on cheap PC’s. The software is purchased legally so there’s not pirating going on, but I’m sure that Apple will take exception with someone patching their software. I’m just waiting on the lawyers to start crawling out of the wood work over this one. What makes me irritated about these guys is also that they’re flaunting it at Apple publicly and daring them to sue. Why would this irritate me and quite a few others? Because now, Apple will feel that, as usual, they have to pull out all the stops and go to war with those who have Mac OS installed on a PC. I’m sure this will be included in some update in the near future. This will require people to go back to the drawing board to find another fix to Apple’s “fix” and inconvenience folks. Apple would scream bloody murder if MS decided to only offer MS products on the PC, but for some reason it doesn’t matter if Apple refuses to let PC users use Apple software on PC’s. Heck, until recently (unless it’s not fixed yet), the EULA on the recently released Safari browser for the PC stated that it was only authorized to be used on the Apple. But Apple was among those browser competitors that moaned for years about MS’s broswer monopoly with Internet Explorer. The bottom line is that Apple needs to get with the program and realize that the majority of computer users stay away from them because they don’t offer anything of value to us. Even the ports of standard PC software are more expensive on Mac OS. Until Apple stops being the elitists that they are, they will remain a minor player in the computing world.
I’m now waiting for the fan boys to come out of the wood work. Criticism isn’t welcome at Apple right?
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