More on Mac OS licensing, Apple & AMD

Posted by Dennis Sellers Oct 26, 2006 at 10:56pm

On Oct. 24, I offered my reasons why Apple shouldn’t license the Mac OS as it has in the past, though an analyst at the Gartner research group thinks the company should. And Macsimum News reader Ronald D. Leppke has a perspective that I wanted to share. Here’s what he says:

“I am sure there is much more that can be said in support of your position. What about the lousy customer service ratings for Dell compared to Apple? I have driven Porsches since ‘59 and they are currently ranked #1 in initial customer acceptance. Would it make sense to turn over producing Porsches to Ford? Also, I read a recent article out there in the last few days about market share pointing out that Apple goes for a certain set of customers who are very likely quite different than Dell customers. This is the auto comparison once again; BMW and Porsche do not design and price for rental car group sales. I am inclined toward these auto comparison since Porsche is also currently also #1 in profitability among car manufacturers while those who go for the rental car market are going under (Ford posted a US$5.8 billion third quarter loss on Monday).”

Also, one final thought: now that Dell is coming out with its first servers running Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron processors, will Apple—as its market share grows—have similar motivation to have AMD processors? Or, will Apple become Intel’s new darling and get better deals than all other makers?

Thoughts? Write me at daseller@earthlink.net

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