Apple Should License the M1 Chip for Affordable Mac Clones
Photo: Everyday basics/Unsplash Back in the dark days of Apple, the almost forgotten mid-1990s, there was a booming business of Mac Clones, licensed, Apple-ish systems running iOS 7 on RISC-based Power PC chips. The quality and designs were decidedly un-Mac-like, but the license business served as a lifesaving revenue bridge between Apple’s stumbling mid-1990s and the return of Steve Jobs. Jobs killed the licensing business in 1997 and remade the Mac as a translucent and desirable objet d’digital art. Since then, Apple’s maintained a vicelike grip on the tech and design specs for all Ma...
Source: medium.com