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| 15-06-08 / 23:07 : EFIX / YellowBox : a true mac or nothing (cjed) |
| EFIX announces for June, 23, an USB dongle that allows to install OSX on every PC. This hack, besides being illegal (and will probably be left inoperant by every Apple OSX update), seems far from perfect : problem with sound management or networking. The best PC (in terms of value/price ratio) is indeed the MacPro, that runs perfectly OSX and Windows. Furthermore, even if Apple would unveil Cocoa for Windows (Yellow Box 2), its iLife applications would certainly not be part of it, as they are the reason why people buy a mac. The OSX versions of these applications, even compiled for Intel, wouldn't run on the Windows Yellow Box, as for example access to the graphical context (specific graphicsPort method) does call a low level instruction thas is different on OSX and Windows (so the applications have to be recompiled). Then all is done to lock the perfect and full Cocoa experience to Apple mac computers. This doesn't prevent however Cocoa for Windows (and Linux) for entreprise rich client layer, but Apple won't give its appealing applications. The iTunes and QuickTime case is different, as it is the required platform to promote the ipod and sell medias online. |
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