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<blockquote data-quote="cg0def" data-source="post: 769450" data-attributes="member: 77392"><p>OS X piracy is not nearly as wide spread not because of the price of software but because of the target market. Windows targets anyone and people in poor countries end up gathering something like $500 for a whole computer and then $120 is a huge chunk of money so they chose to pirate the OS. After all they probably work 1/2 month for $120. On the other hand the cheapest mac is a little less than 1k ( considerably more in less developed countries ). If you are willing to spend $1500 on average for a computer do you really think that $120 every 2 years for an OS upgrade would be a problem? I don't think so. Then there is the issue of getting clear improvements in either functionality or performance ( or both ) while with Windows the improvements are sometimes very subjective topic. </p><p>Anyway I think that the main reason why Apple does not use serial keys on the OS installation is because they have never had a piracy problem and even with the rise of hackintoshed a serial key will likely hurt the paying users rather than prevent the pirates from stealing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cg0def, post: 769450, member: 77392"] OS X piracy is not nearly as wide spread not because of the price of software but because of the target market. Windows targets anyone and people in poor countries end up gathering something like $500 for a whole computer and then $120 is a huge chunk of money so they chose to pirate the OS. After all they probably work 1/2 month for $120. On the other hand the cheapest mac is a little less than 1k ( considerably more in less developed countries ). If you are willing to spend $1500 on average for a computer do you really think that $120 every 2 years for an OS upgrade would be a problem? I don't think so. Then there is the issue of getting clear improvements in either functionality or performance ( or both ) while with Windows the improvements are sometimes very subjective topic. Anyway I think that the main reason why Apple does not use serial keys on the OS installation is because they have never had a piracy problem and even with the rise of hackintoshed a serial key will likely hurt the paying users rather than prevent the pirates from stealing. [/QUOTE]
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