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Old August 16th 18, 08:23 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Tiresomely. Windows might go the way of PS. The "rental economy" strikes again

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Whisky-dave wrote:

Power computing put together hardware that was almost mac level
and then they put Apple software on it which only just worked.
Pretty short lived idea.


actually, their computers exceeded macs in some ways and they were
quite successful at it.


They did have faster clock speeds but when it came to software updates most
failed despite these updates being free.


the updates did not fail.

Quite successful didn;t last long though did it.


it lasted up until apple canceled cloning.

and they had to pay a fee to Apple for each license sold.


of course.

dell, lenovo and others pay microsoft to license windows.

android device makers pay google to license android (other than the
ones that just use the core that lacks all the expected features).

Why did they have to pay Apple.


because mac os is owned by apple.

You could only buy them for a couple of years , then they went out of
business as steve job didn't want to license mac software to anyone else.


because it was detrimental to apple.