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Originally Posted by Gargoyle
IMO, this is exactly the kind of false statement that a lot of people are making. Apple make and sell good quality machines, then then support those machines with AppleCare etc (Let's not get into an AppleCare quality argument here - just stick to theory).
Now imagine that Apple plop OS X onto the shelf for any old Wintel user to grab and install on his PC. You are going to get a massive surge of people with cheap hardware (especially memory - as was discussed in another thread) calling AppleCare with their OS problems, which are not actually OS problems at all - in fact, they are not even Apple problems!
Then you will be back into the situation whereby the OS maker and the Hardware makers just blame each other when something doesn't work! I like the way Apple make and sell the OS and the Hardware - It keeps things neat and easy to support.
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If something goes awry then its the hardware vendors fault. There is no apple care for non apple computers. Just good documentation from Apple.
Also I think that they should at least work with HP and corporate oriented hard ware makers. I read somewhere corporations tend to buy everything from one source. You don't want to try to switch a corporation by making them switch everything to apple hardware because that would make the entry price point too high to give apple a try.