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Report: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hits piracy sites
Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 11:14 AM EST

"There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components," Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days. "The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs... I estimate that we’re down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer-to-peer piracy networks. (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.) If I can think through this stuff, Apple’s management can think through this stuff. This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen."

"According to reports, Apple’s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed... Given Apple’s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple’s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ’05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation. As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs. Apple’s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that’s what they’re doing. It’s a try-before-you-buy deal," Harrell writes.

Full article here.

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Well hey great news. Join the club. What took Apple so long to figure it out?

"This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen."

Please!!!!!!!!!!

You've just given M$ a huge compliment since they've been doing this since before the release of WIN95.

We're talking at "least" eleven years here! Apple is at "LEAST" eleven years behind the power curve, and taking it's queues from M$.

Gates himself said, and he said it "YEARS AGO", that he would rather see pi raters pirating M$ products than something else for obvious reasons (It builds product knowledge, loyalty, technical skill), and Apple wasn't available to intel platforms at the time either so for those of you wandering in that direction forget it.

Gates, didn't and doesn't see Apple as a threat. So for those of you thinking in that direction forget it. Fact is Apple isn't a threat to M$. Google is a far bigger threat to M$ than Apple ever has been or will ever likely be.

And M$ has figured that out. To late, but it has figured that out. Apple still hasn't.

Apple is not innovative either. It's typically behind the power curve, like this pirating marketing scheme you're discussing that M$ has been leveraging to it's benefit for over a decade already.

Apple has woefully under performing hardware compared to intel machines, no matter how much it lies about it's machine's capabilities, but then again when you've got fanatic adherents to stupidity, stupid will do for explanations, so will outrageous prices for under performing products, but you buy, and they sell, then both of you lie, and you're both stupidly happy with your ignorant decisions. Them I can understand as the profit's in their pocket, you, not so much.

That's not up for debate. Apple buyers aren't the brightest cookies in the cookie jar, but then again not everyone can be on top.

It is what it is, and no attempt at rationalizing prices, apple's lies, and performance stats is going to change that.

About the only thing it does do well is creating plastic shells to cover technology already being done, and done better, and before it got hold of it in their "think tanks". Their only redeeming quality being looks, their ability to fool their customers into believing things like this pirating scheme are "... the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen"

Well, if you really believe that you should have been inspired by M$ a decade ago.

Please!!!!! Just Please!

Get over it. Apple sucks. One of the absolutely worst things about Apple is how truly delusional most of it's fan base is.

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Dapple said:
"Oh paaaahleeeze! The best that you can say is that Apple has joined M$ in it's "old" and ongoing bid to increase market share by patently counting on piracy?

Well hey great news. Join the club. What took Apple so long to figure it out?

"This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen."

Please!!!!!!!!!!

You've just given M$ a huge compliment since they've been doing this since before the release of WIN95.

We're talking at "least" eleven years here! Apple is at "LEAST" eleven years behind the power curve, and taking it's queues from M$.

Gates himself said, and he said it "YEARS AGO", that he would rather see pi raters pirating M$ products than something else for obvious reasons (It builds product knowledge, loyalty, technical skill), and Apple wasn't available to intel platforms at the time either so for those of you wandering in that direction forget it.

Gates, didn't and doesn't see Apple as a threat. So for those of you thinking in that direction forget it. Fact is Apple isn't a threat to M$. Google is a far bigger threat to M$ than Apple ever has been or will ever likely be.

And M$ has figured that out. To late, but it has figured that out. Apple still hasn't.

Apple is not innovative either. It's typically behind the power curve, like this pirating marketing scheme you're discussing that M$ has been leveraging to it's benefit for over a decade already.

Apple has woefully under performing hardware compared to intel machines, no matter how much it lies about it's machine's capabilities, but then again when you've got fanatic adherents to stupidity, stupid will do for explanations, so will outrageous prices for under performing products, but you buy, and they sell, then both of you lie, and you're both stupidly happy with your ignorant decisions. Them I can understand as the profit's in their pocket, you, not so much.

That's not up for debate. Apple buyers aren't the brightest cookies in the cookie jar, but then again not everyone can be on top.

It is what it is, and no attempt at rationalizing prices, apple's lies, and performance stats is going to change that.

About the only thing it does do well is creating plastic shells to cover technology already being done, and done better, and before it got hold of it in their "think tanks". Their only redeeming quality being looks, their ability to fool their customers into believing things like this pirating scheme are "... the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen"

Well, if you really believe that you should have been inspired by M$ a decade ago.

Please!!!!! Just Please!

Get over it. Apple sucks. One of the absolutely worst things about Apple is how truly delusional most of it's fan base is."

Amen!!!

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