What is Apple doing about piracy on Macs

[maflynn]

As I stated in my post above, some of Apple's software titles have serial numbers, but several do not. Your fallback on the shopworn canard about marketshare goes nowhere.

It maybe shop worn but its the most plausible and makes the most sense.

Apple's fee-based offerings have unit sales that many commercial software developers green with envy.

Really who? I mean yeah I can see some tiny development houses having small unit sales but that doesn't detract from the facts that I stated.

The notion that Apple's lack of activation is intended to differentiate the Fruit Company from the Redmond Monopoly does not pass the Laugh Test.

I'm glad you got a laugh out that, but its true, in fact I hear this reason to be the most motivation to buying apple products. So while you are laughing, others are choosing OSX over windows sole because it dose not have phone home stuff.

 

[Hellhammer]

I'm pretty sure they do that because Apple trusts you not to pirate the OS, unlike Microsoft which they don't trust you with the software you bought.

I doubt pirating OS X is very popular as every Mac comes with it plus the install discs. In Windows, the majority of downloaders are custom PC builders who want to save some $ and of course the people who upgrade from older/worse version of Windows. Of course there are some who don't want to pay for new OS X but still wants it but especially with Snow Leopard it's pretty useless as it's only 29$, so as I said, the biggest number of OS X piracies are Hackintoshers who need a special version of it or are just lazy to buy it due no guarantee that it'll work

These are just my assumptions, no actual fact

 

[yg17]

Apple, unlike other companies, has learned that no matter what anti-piracy measures you put in place, it will be defeated, and stricter anti-piracy measures only annoy the legit users, so why bother? Look at Windows Activation. It's been cracked, Microsoft plugs the hole, it gets cracked again, Microsoft plugs again, and it gets cracked again, and the cycle never ends. And who ends up paying in the long run? The people who purchased the software and end up having to speak to some guy halfway around the world who doesn't speak English to reactivate their copy of Windows when they reinstall. I've had to make that phone call several times; next time I have to reinstall Windows, I may just be tempted to crack it so I don't have to deal with Microsoft's BS, it's probably quicker and easier and since I own a copy, not unethical IMO.