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09/20/2005, 10:20am, EDT
Tuesday, September 20th
Jobs on Intel Macs, OS X, product secrecy
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the company’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller this morning held an open discussion with European media, according to Macworld UK. Jobs confirmed the company was "on track" to have Intel-based Macs shipping by June. When asked what he thought about PC users installing pirated versions of Mac OS X on their regular PCs, Jobs said it will not be so easy with the final version of Mac OS X for Intel. "We will have technology in OS X for Intel so that it cannot be installed in other PCs," he said. "Theft is bad," he said, warning: "You don’t want to burn in Hell." Jobs also explained the company’s motivation on not discussing future products. “Microsoft is copying our operating system,” he said, adding, “Dell is copying our hardware."
See related iPodNN report: Jobs on "greedy" labels, iPod nano.
See related iPodNN report: Jobs on "greedy" labels, iPod nano.
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When Microsoft comes out with Windows Vista, your PC probably won't be powerful enough to run it, so you'll have to buy a new PC to do so. In that case, you're better off buying a new Macintel that will allow you to dual boot to Windows.
-- Jobs 9:20
--Jobs 9:20 verse 2
No, it will be cracked, within a month I'd imagine. It will be impossible to prevent it from being run on all PCs. Somebody will find a way to run on at least on model of PCs. There is no way to secure an operating system from someone who has physical and logical access to a machine.
A bit over-the-top, even for SJ, isn't this? Protest too much?
Sigh.. Will it really be "theft" when MacIntel OS X is on store shelves and someone pays for it and tries to get it to run on their non-macintel PC? How about when they succeed? Never-mind Christ's message of forgiveness for all sins.. Sorry Steve, but if OJ and Gates have a chance of getting out of Hell, I think people that get MacOS X to run on non-macintel PCs should breathe easy.
As far as the tech that will prevent this? Paladium/TPM that Mac users and Windows users alike slam M$ for promoting? I'm sure that will win more users to the platform ... Shrug.
Sounds like one of those Jobs quotes that will be forgotten by the time Jobs does a 180 and decides to let non-macintel PC users buy MacOS X... No MacOS X on non-mac PCs may end up being another no flash based iPod, and no all-in-one mac built into the back of a flatscreen ...
Or SJ and Apple may make M$ look almost saintly .. We may see Apple begin to act like the **AAs and smack down users with DMCA BS for trying to run MacOS X on non-macintel PCs.
What? Me worry? ...
take care all
jwd