The move to x86 brought with it great fortunes, but also a lot of legal headache. Apple needs to do something special in its hardware, they've got PASemi, Apple needs to add a special chip in their computers, POWER or ARM, Apple has licenses for both, that OS X wont boot without. All this can be done without breaking compatibility with x86 versions of OS X and other x86 OSes, like Windows.
If Apple plans this right, by the time OS X releases require the custom chipset, Macs with such chipset would have been on the market for 4 years, simply release OS X 10.9 or 10.10 requiring this custom hardware, and BOOM! the clones suddenly can't run the latest of OS X, it wont be possible for them to figure it out, especially if Apple integrated the chip in a way without disclosing whether it is ARM, POWER or something else, and remained secretive about it, plus being a custom chip, means it wont be available off-shelf. By that time, people who were using Mac clones, would become invested in the Mac, either by familarity or also in software and hardware, they have to either buy a Mac or switch to something different.
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