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> I wish there was a reasonable way to run OS X on non-Apple hardware.

The reason that Mac OS X updates are currently free is because the software development (and that of iLife and iWork and iCloud etc) is subsidised by the hardware. You can think of the Mac as a very elegant functional dongle, if you like. But the fact is, that's the way Apple structures its business.



what motivates Microsoft updates? Fear of market share loss?




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