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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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November 04, 2005

Will Apple Send in the Clones?

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Seb Janacek asks: will Apple revive an old idea and license Mac OS X to other PC makers?

In a word, no.

Speaking at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller insisted OS X would run on Apple hardware only. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac," he said.
I think this is more likely. Why give up a strategic advantage to help your competitors if you can grab their market share instead?

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