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Originally Posted by bmxbandit
why would apple spend lots of time and money on making making their software work on the bajillion combinations of hardware possible on a PC, when they can sell you their own hardware at a big markup?  |
Its not so hard to get it too work on all computers anymore. Windows XP is usually fine with this and problems caused by driver/hardware problems are minimal.
Its just part of Apple business model. A lot of money from the hardware goes back into the OS R&D. Effectivle OSX is the most expensive OS in the world because you pay a massive entry price for it when you get the computer (the markup you were talking about). Which makes every other version of OSX afterwards techincally a 'upgrade'.
Windows is similer, especially with the entry price the OS.