People discussing the new announcement by Apple of ‘tamper resistant code’ to prevent OS X installing on any old PC are missing the main point in the announcement. You can read it yourself here.

I’m hoping that OSX on x86 isn’t cracked too quickly. It will be cracked of course, everything is in time.

Those running OS X on Dells and the like will not get the same levels of compatibility or hardware acceleration as a genuine Intel Mac. Will every part of your PC be the same as the Intel Mac? Thought not. People doing this aren’t likely to be buying a Mac any time soon anyway, not too much of a loss for Apple.

So the hackers and crackers of OS X protection don’t matter. Yet the current net discussion is all about that, missing a nice titbit of information in the announcement.

Apple not preventing users from installing Windows or Linux along side OS X. The opposite is true. They are going out of their way to enable users to have OS X, Windows and Linux running on a Mac at native speeds.

The goal is to make a Mac the premium PC, running whatever and OS X. This will cannibalise the high end PC market. The point? Anyone who wants a quality machine will buy an Apple and run there choice of OS on it.

How come so many people are missing that?

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