The clone vendors are eating Apple's lunch. According to sources at the clone vendors, Apple has responded by discontinuing licensing the Mac OS, withdrawing their committment to CHRP, and deciding not to license a laptop or their new desktop designs. According to Apple, kiss the clones goodbye. You hear a different story from the cloners. He's not a board member or a large shareholder or an officer of the company.
Customer loyalty is precious.
Make faster Mac-compatible computers and charge a little more for it. Make sure it runs our software. And then get out of the way and let some software companies merge and grow to serve these customers. Further, the cloners are part of the structure of the Mac market. They're selling lots of computers, therefore they have lots of customers.