Quote:
|
Originally Posted by BenRoethig
Two of the three are definately HP and Sony. I think the third is Gateway though.
|
Gateway was excited and ready to deliver Mac clones back in the clone days.
Apple didn't grant the license because they weren't sure they could compete with them. (This was back when Apple has a gazillon models and no real market focus.)
Apple won't go into X86 licenses, because of the obvious and aforementioned software vacuum.
I've always said that cloning is a valid option if Apple is selling bundles of OS Licenses AND the motherboards. Anything else requires Apple to do too much free R&D for cloners, and will fail just like last time.