muta...@gmail.com
2021-05-27 13:40:15 UTC
If the below, which I read on Quora, is actually true,
could someone please explain this "mess"?
What precisely have people become "used to"?
Presumably I am one of those people, but I don't
know what it is I'm supposed to be used to.
And what solutions exist for this alleged mess
that people are used to?
Also, I thought the hardware was very reliable and
it is almost always software that is at fault, not the
hardware. If there is a rare situation where hardware
is regularly at fault, can the OS work around that?
Thanks. Paul.
Why can’t a macOS be installed in a Windows computer?
Apple don’t want that to happen.
Not because they want to extract more money from hardware sales (Apple hardware is actually cheap for the quality you get anyway), not because they wouldn’t sell OS X as a product if they could.
It’s really simple: they did the math on the support costs of random third party hardware, and the numbers came up “nope”.
Apple actually did this long before OS X was a thing; for a short while you could actually get a licensed non-Apple MacOS computer.
But the support costs killed it.
To actually do this and make money, they’d have to sell OS X for a couple of thousand dollars, or maybe a subscription at about $50/month. That’s to pay for the three or four thousand developers and ten or so thousand support people they’d have to hire to deal with all the random crap hardware out there.
And it still wouldn’t meet their quality targets anyway.
So how can Microsoft do it?
They get the OEMs and hardware manufacturers to deal with most of it. Which they mostly do badly, but people have somehow become used to the resulting mess.
could someone please explain this "mess"?
What precisely have people become "used to"?
Presumably I am one of those people, but I don't
know what it is I'm supposed to be used to.
And what solutions exist for this alleged mess
that people are used to?
Also, I thought the hardware was very reliable and
it is almost always software that is at fault, not the
hardware. If there is a rare situation where hardware
is regularly at fault, can the OS work around that?
Thanks. Paul.
Why can’t a macOS be installed in a Windows computer?
Apple don’t want that to happen.
Not because they want to extract more money from hardware sales (Apple hardware is actually cheap for the quality you get anyway), not because they wouldn’t sell OS X as a product if they could.
It’s really simple: they did the math on the support costs of random third party hardware, and the numbers came up “nope”.
Apple actually did this long before OS X was a thing; for a short while you could actually get a licensed non-Apple MacOS computer.
But the support costs killed it.
To actually do this and make money, they’d have to sell OS X for a couple of thousand dollars, or maybe a subscription at about $50/month. That’s to pay for the three or four thousand developers and ten or so thousand support people they’d have to hire to deal with all the random crap hardware out there.
And it still wouldn’t meet their quality targets anyway.
So how can Microsoft do it?
They get the OEMs and hardware manufacturers to deal with most of it. Which they mostly do badly, but people have somehow become used to the resulting mess.