@Roman Steve Jobs wasn't telling people to build their own hardware. He was saying the OEMs who built Mac clones should take on the responsibility for building their own hardware instead of relying on Apple and that they should pay higher rates for licensing the OS. Not long after Steve Jobs took over as CEO of Apple, he axed the clones and that entire experiment, trying to emulate Microsoft's business model, was finished. In hindsight, it was the right decision for Jobs to end the clones when he had the power to do so.