Soup; Apple with its better OS, and better CPU is well suited to such a system. The Wintels have a CPU standard and an OS standard, which you have said ad nauseum is inferior to Apples. What are you afraid of? Wide open with Apple would have a convergence of design that the Wintels lack, and with an open system therre will not be as much freedom to make strange messes as the Wintels, as both the CPU, BIOS and OS would be standard. The variances would not be great enough to cause problems. Of course you will have a huge increase in software written as the market tries to redress the previous imbalance in favor of Wintels, and some may be lousy codes, so let them not sell, and get improved or go broke.
Would you like me to state what business model is bad for Apple, and repeat it ad nauseum?? What they have been doing is bad for Apple, and more of the same will be worse. A little tinkering with the deckchairs on the Titanic(to reuse it yet again) is not what is needed. What Apple and the Titanic need(ed) is a change of direction, to miss the berg and to sail on in a new direction. You seem full of criticism, but yet lack original ideas of your own. Please make a few suggestions for a market scenario and let the rest of us comment.
Any closed system will not work, the crack in the door clone system of Amelio was too littl and too late. However note they the clones expanded market share and Apple lost even more. Had there been a wide open clone system 2 years ago Apple would now have a huge amount of OS sales revenue, and BIOS sales revenue, and CPU sales revenue(will someone clarify if the CPUs are sold by Apple after they are bought from IBM/Motorola, or does IBM/Motorola sell them with no commission to Apple??) In addition Apple would also have a bigger software base.
It makes no sense to give the market away to Wintels by a closed market(even small restrictions slow development greatly, due to the administrative crap involved taking 6 months to run it's course(if you do not believe me ask an Apple cloner). The wintel buy the CPU, BIOS, and OS off the shelf take an hour to do. Apple must match that. This certification of the std clones will also take time. Let them make them and buy the parts from Apple. If they make bad ones they will not sell. However part of an open system involves the provision of a standard circuit for cloners to build to, minimizing bad products.
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