Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Henry Fleischmann <henry () fishcasa com>
Date: June 13, 2005 11:36:12 AM EDT
To: "Farber, Dave" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked?


For IP if you like.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/12/130234&tid=179&tid=1

"There is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that  
runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with  
compatible components," Jeff Harrell writes for The Shape of Days.  
"The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their  
developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel  
graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs... I estimate that we’re  
down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware  
is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer- 
to-peer piracy networks. (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons  
wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software  
is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.) If  
I can think through this stuff, Apple’s management can think through  
this stuff. This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move  
I’ve ever seen."

"According to reports, Apple’s bundled iLife applications, major  
selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native  
and run at full speed... Given Apple’s experiences with software  
piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread  
developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this  
past spring, Apple’s management from the top down knows full well  
that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a  
cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to  
install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of  
iLife ’05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac  
software in translation. As a result, Apple will give thousands,  
possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed  
on their own PCs. Apple’s giving their potential future customers a  
free taste, that’s what they’re doing. It’s a try-before-you-buy  
deal," Harrell writes.



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