Quote - Maybe now they'll loosen their software up a bit. Allow Mac clones once again. License MacOS for PC users. Would be nice.

As the owner of Hackintoshes (one physical, one VM), I'd love to see that too. Smart licensing of OSX as a general OEM OS option would obliterate Microsoft's consumer marketshare almost overnight. 

OTOH, I don't think it will happen, and for good reasons:

• Support would be come a nightmare once you start having people slap OSX onto machines made of random PC parts, which may or may not be compatible.

• The amount of drivers required would skyrocket, increasing costs.

• The price difference wouldn't really be all that much - folks like Dell and etc. would only put OSX on their high-end machinery, which in turn means the price would be the same or even more.

• In spite of that last point, 3rd-party OEMs would still cut corners.

All of that together would harm Apple's reputation.

Also, Apple is growing its marketshare by leaps and bounds still, growing at 20-30% per year while the rest of the PC industry grew at a mere 4% (with most of that being corporate purchases). Globally, around one in 10 new consumer computers purchased is a Mac. In the US, I'd say 2 in 10, if not 1/4 of them by now. In other words, they're growing just fine on their own, so they likely don't see the need to have clones right now. If the Mac's sales growth stalls, it might become a reality, but they're growing like hell now, and have been for the past decade. They currently enjoy the highest customer satisfaction ratings, and probably don't want to jepoardize that, nor would they want to have to troubleshoot someone else's hardware.