Apple is continuing in it’s ways to wage war against anyone that tries to muscle in on it’s territory. Last week, Apple announced an iTunes upgrade, version 9.0.2, which was subsequently determined to break the Palm Pre Sync Feature.
Apple has now announced that the next version of Snow Leopard, OSX 10.6.2 will no longer support Intel Atom processors. Why is this significant? The Atom processors are what power the Netbook family of computers and by removing this support, Apple is trying to kill off the Hackintosh, a term that affectionately refers to a netbook computer that is running OS X.
There’s a lot of debate on the blogosphere with people on both sides of the fence, some believing Apple has a right to protect their technology while others take a differing view that the company should stay out of this and just sell Apple software.
If you happen to run a “Hackint0sh”, you’d probably be wise to hold off on updating the OS for now.
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