“Licensing Mac OS X would make sense on a number of levels, and if you ask me, it would probably help Apple’s bottom line,” Don Reisinger writes for CNET.
“Let’s face it: Apple isn’t happy that it needs to deal with Psystar. And why should it be? The company is a costly nuisance that needs to be dealt with swiftly. But if the court battle lasts too long–or worse, if Psystar finds a way to win, Apple will be forced to deal with a slew of similar Mac clones that will only make maintaining its stranglehold on Mac OS X that much harder,” Reisinger writes.
“That’s why Apple should license Mac OS X to Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the world’s top PC manufacturers. By doing so, it will be able to eliminate the threat Psystar and its clones create, since no one will trust an Open Computer from a no-name compared to Dell and HP. More importantly, it will expand its presence in the PC business and finally get to a place where it can compete on the same level as Microsoft,” Reisinger writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Yawn. You know it’s a boring rehash when, halfway through, we find ourselves yearning for yet another article about Steve Jobs’ pancreas.
Reisinger continues, “Why would HP and Dell accept such an idea? It’s simple: both companies are extremely displeased with Microsoft, after the Vista fiasco, and their enterprise customers don’t want anything to do with their computers, if Vista is installed.”
“Worse, consumers don’t trust Vista, which is why HP and Dell were forced to ‘downgrade’ customer operating systems to XP. Beyond that, both HP and Dell know how highly regarded Apple is, and just having the opportunity to sell Apple software on their own computers would be enough for them to offer Apple a sweetheart deal,” Reisinger writes.
Today’s version of an article we’ve seen far too many times already (it’s like that mythical lone fruitcake that keeps getting mailed around), can be read in full here.
MacDailyNews Take: Based on the “legal arguments” we’ve seen from them so far, Psystar will win the day after the Cubs win the World Series.
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