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Well first of all some people have broken real Macs by trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard. The Migration Assistant feature is buggy too: it does NOT copy your user profiles flawlessly. But I would be satisfied if they just fixed the huge mess with the file permissions database which they created in 10.5.8. That update broke a few things on real Macs too, but Apple will not even admit these problems exist. It also makes troubleshooting bugs and security holes more difficult.

They should worry about making real Macs function properly before they waste all of this time trying to break a few Atom machines. Don't they realize that people who buy those things would not have bought a Mac immediately anyhow? Apple should learn from Microsoft: it's better to sell them a copy of Mac OS than sell them nothing at all. Selling Mac OS for netbooks would have the side effect of improving Apple desktop sales:

Many Windows desktop users are just not going to switch unless you give them a chance to try Mac OS without risking lots of money and downtime. Store displays don't accomplish this... it's got to be hands-on. Apple's advertising claims they want a greater market share, but they don't know how to accomplish this because the management in their ivory tower is totally out of touch with how the typical working class user thinks and feels. Most people buy a new desktop machine to replace an old (or broken) machine of the same type. If their regular production machine is still working, they will not just go buy an expensive Mac desktop in order to learn Mac OS. So much for Steve's stated goal of "changing the world." Apple's high prices and stubbornness virtually guarantees that Mac OS users will always remain a minority.