Doomsday Technologies

There is something that has really been on my mind, and irking me ever since Apple announced that they would be using Intel chips in their computers. As soon as that was announced, people immediately began speculating of all the possibilities. Windows on the Mac, MacOS on a PC, etc... The second item, the ability to run the MacOS on a PC, is nothing short of absurd. Ever since the big announcement, the hype has grown bigger and bigger, almost exponentially, it seems. At first, people speculated that you would be able to run Windows on a Mac, and when that piece came true, the hype over being able to run the MacOS on a PC truly flared up, and has yet to calm down. Everybody keeps talking about a so-called pressure on Steve Jobs to make this happen, and the general thought is that it is only a matter of time.

What people need to realize, is how silly this whole idea is. People think Apple is a software company, but they aren't seeing Apple for what it truly is. Apple is far from being a software company, they are a hardware company more than anything. Apple sells a computer for $1500 when you can get a comparable PC for about $600. It doesn't cost them that much more than it costs HP or Dell to make what is practically the same machine, it is simply their markup. It is the meat and potatoes for Apple's bottom line. The MacOS operating system? That is simply a selling point to move more hardware. Why else does Apple sell the OS for only $100, or $180 for a 5 user pack? Because they could care less about their OS. The MacOS is merely a trojan horse to get their hardware into your house or office.

They try to build a brand image for their computers, that brings about a stereotype of being cool and hip. Their view, or at least the view they are trying to project, is that PC users are dweebs. Don't buy a PC, or you'll be a dweeb. By positioning themselves as the computer that every cool person has, they create the desire for a consumer to own one of these computers, so as to promote their social status somehow. They want to move computers. Back in the late 90's, Apple did an experiment. They decided to stop monopolizing their own corner of the market, and allowed a few companies to make Mac compatible PC's. This move positioned Apple as a software company for a short while, by taking control of the computers out of their hands. This did not last, and Apple once again deemed that their computers were the only ones that were allowed to run the Mac OS. Why is this? Because they did not make money off their cheap operating system. They make money off their ridiculously expensive computers. Do you actually believe that they're going to allow their operating system to run on a PC that any hobbyist can throw together with $500 worth of parts from NewEgg? No, they want you to buy their MacBook Pro for $2000...or their Mac Pro for $2500 (over $17,000 fully loaded!). Their $100 operating system is petty cash.

Apple is a hardware company. They will do anything they possibly can to keep their operating system from running on anything but their hardware. Whenever people start realizing that, they can move on and use a real operating system.