Wow, this again? Hm...
To push OS X as a complete kit (iLife and so on, beyond just a bootable OS), what Apple would really need to push to the x86 is Carbon/Cocoa.
Questions abound: hardware drivers? Apple does one graphics chipset in-house and they're not that great, compared to the same chipset on DirectX/Windows. And that's just video cards. So would the licensees hire driver developers or have their OEMs write them?
I don't know. It just seems to be a colossal mountain to move. It might be great for mindshare, but this seems to be a "nuclear option" for Apple. The resulting entities would be Apple Software and Apple Electronics (read: iPod'n'Stuff).
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