Apple the Microsoft of the 21st Century.
The guys over at Profit42 have posted instructions for installing OSX 10.5 (Leopard) on non-apple hardware. They claim it is for informational use only and of course they do not tell you where you can download that needed files.
This brings up an interesting question. When will hardware vendors take action and claim anti-competitive behavior. When Microsoft decided to include Internet Explorer with their operating system there was an outrage from the geek community. Law suits were filed and the Department of Justice took action. Now that the shoe is on the other foot where is the action? Apple does everything it can to lock you into their products. If you want to use an iPod you have to use iTunes. If you want to use OX legally you have to use an Apple computer.
These allegations are nothing new. People have been complaining about Apple’s business practices for years. But much like the Microsoft case some thing has changed. Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer was part of the operating system and could not be separated. It wasn’t until someone demonstrated that it was possible to remove it from Windows 95 that Microsoft’s case started to crumble. Much like the situation with Microsoft “hackers” have demonstrated that OSX can run on non-apple hardware. There are even reports of uses running it on AMD processors.
I don’t understand why there is such hypocrisy when it comes to Apple. Let me know what you think.