Not long ago, many people on these forums were saying, "Apple will never enter the sub $500 market. Apple would lose money on it and it would cannibalize sales of more profitable Macs." Now some are saying that Apple will never allow clones. I think we cannot easily say what Apple will or will not do. There are too many surprises. Regarding Job's statements about clones, I seem to remember the door being left open a crack, like maybe under the right circumstances or in a limited way.
I have no opinion about whether it will or won't happen, but I sure wouldn't be surprised to see things like IBM built business clients running OS X or IBM blade servers having an OS X option. I agree with the posting that said the restriction on producing PCs may only apply to X86 based products. We don't know the fine print in that IBM-Lenovo contract.
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