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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85504)9/28/2009 12:11:59 AM
From: Cogito   of 213182
 
>>My personal feeling is Apple's way of serving the cheapie and/or netbook markets is to leave OSX essentially unprotected and let people have at it. They are unlikely to make a profit from those things anyway, unless they go to a Microsoft level of non-service.<<

WLD -

Many, though not all Hackintosh buyers do buy a legitimate copy of Leopard. Apple probably makes more on that sale than they would on a three or four hundred dollar netbook, and without the support costs. A win-win for them.

And then, as you say, they get the advertising benefit.

- Allen
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