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Steve Ballmer should limit his worries to Microsoft and his advice to his employees. Last week the Microsoft CEO reportedly had the audacity to suggest that Apple "become more like Microsoft," and loosen the bonds between Apple hardware and software.

Is he really that clueless? Surely he's aware that it's the marriage between hardware and Mac OS X that allows Apple build the best, most intuitive computers and smartphones in the world.

According to an article on CNet News the comments came during an interview conducted by a Ziff Davis reporter at the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley...

I could have sworn that only Apple was making Apple-compatible computers. I remember well the era in which Apple famously granted—then revoked—licenses to Motorola and others to manufacture hardware that would run Mac OS.

As I read today that a company called Psystar Corp. (www.psystar.com) was selling “an alternative to pricey Apple hardware,” I thought the rules had changed while I wasn’t looking.

Or did they? Unfortunately, the whole thing appears to be a complete scam, and one that almost every media outlet that covered it fell for hook, line and sinker.

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