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Re:Discussion Q&A - Unauthorized Clones? - 2008/04/20 15:55 As krow says, Apple's business model is different from MS's because Apple is, after all, a hardware company. So any computer that a clone maker sells is a computer that Apple doesn't sell. Is that good or bad? Well, I suppose it's good in the sense that it would put pressure on Apple to come out with more different kinds of models. But cannibalizing the mother ship is not good in the long run because there's no one else out there who has the R&D money to move the OS forwards, so if Apple's bottom line wanes, so does its expenditures in R&D and pretty soon there won't be anything for the clones to run.

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