Apple Mac Tablet: Killing support for other netbooks first

Two days ago we reported that Apple would kill Intel Atom support when they release their Mac OS X 10.6.2 update, many now believe that the real reason behind this is to kill off competition for the highly rumored Apple Tablet.

An online community known as the “Hackint0sh Netbook community” have developed ways in which they can run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, most of these are devices running Intel Atom processors.

Obviously once Apple release this particular update all of Hackint0sh’s hard work will become undone, therefore Hackint0sh are recommending anyone running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware to not install the update, find out more on Techtree.

Personally I don’t understand how Apple can get away with this, yet Microsoft cannot even bundle a web browser with their OS without being investigated by the EU antitrust regulators.

Do you think Apple should be allowed to release this update? We would like to hear your arguments both supporting and apposing Apple’s decision.