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DRM and so forth
SpacemanSpiff:
I know that double posts are bad style and whatnot, but I thought that these news might be of interest.
Seems like Se7en is right: TCPA will start on Macs.
Addius:
Which is ofcourse the very reason why they ditched the PPC architecture. Apple would never survive if their OS was usable on a "normal" x86 systems..
Ofcourse this also means that there won't be any macs running AMDs and alternative motherboards or any other hardware that isn't sold by Apple themselves. And people wonder why I don't like Apple?
Oerdin:
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And no, prices would probably stay pretty high even if it was implemented, otherwise it would already have been cheaper.
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Prices will likely get higher not lower since the cost of getting software and hardware certified is supposedly fairly steep so only big companies can afford it. Small and medium sized companies will go out of business while the big companies will be able to lock users in and effectively prevent them from switching to competing products in the future. This will kill competition and that has never been good for consumers and has always raised prices.
Addius:
I don't think it'll be that harsh, as I said earlier I'd be very surprised if unsigned programs was not allowed to be run at all. My guess is that they will make it an user-rights issue, like putting yourself in 'wheel' in linux. This way certain users will have the privilege of running uncertified programs, while others won't. ('wheel' was a bit drastic but you get my point)
nihilist:
Heh. Look into Apple's system. DRM == OS X only installs on certain computers. Done at a hardware level.
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