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iBox Episode 2
coolgeek writes "According to this article on Wired, the iBox (original SlashDot post), later renamed to the CoreBox, has run into some trouble. Their strategy is to clone Mac computers using spare parts from repair centers. Evidently, the supplier of the repair parts was reminded by Apple Computer's Legal Department that supplying to a computer manufacturer was a breach of contract. Consequently, the supplier has chosen to stop supplying parts. More information on at the CoreComputing website, and they say the game isn't over yet..."
Just wait until Apple has market share. You think this is bad? This is nothing.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Don't you realize that you are pissing off customers such as myself!
Screw the G5; I'm buying a dual opteron!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Steve Jobs shoots Apple in the foot once again. MBA classes all across America probably use Apple's poor business decisions as examples of how to offend customers and how *not* to grow business... the *one* thing Apple excels at ;)
Steve Jobs & Apple are permanent fuck-ups.
It's always funny reading the Apple appoligist, defending every lawsuit they do, defending their overpriced systems, what have you. I'm going to put straight these myths now.
.mac ? People flip out when they buy out an anti-virus company to assumably integrate it with Windows Update.
1) the "BMW" of computers. Macs are PCs, and cheaply made ones at that. The only thing that makes a Mac a Mac, is a case, cpu, and board. Their boards are at least 18 months behind x86 tech, their cpus, albeit a better design lag behind current x86 preformance. Their cases are also too small to put much more then another harddrive. The overall quality of Apple computers isn't even up to snuff with the x86 world. Read some forums about dented and pain peeling of Powerbooks, noise issues of Powermacs, keys falling off cheeply made iBooks, and you get the picture. The myth of "Apple quality" is greater then their "mhz myth"
2) OSX is the greatest OS since sliced bread. This comes from the fast that it's a "UNIX-based" OS that's "for a consumer". Well, if you want to compare feature for feature of the OS, Windows XP beats it hand down. I can also show you a couple linux distros that easily compare. Yes it's pretty, then try to do something useful with it, and you find that the OS doesn't do it, and it's a $20 shareware application to get it to work(joysticks anyone?). You buy a $2000 computer, and you still get nag screens with their media player asking for $20. You want a real unix, install a linux disto or a real *BSD. And OSX isn't cheap either, every year, they have a new $129 that kills backwards compatability(you want new iTunes? buy 10.2 for $129) And people complain about Mircosoft's "forced upgrades"? How much would Mircosoft be bashed if they started to tie payed services into XP like
3) Apple is a "friendly" company. Apple will sue anyone and everything. You have a theme that remotely has circular buttons? Apply legal will be on you like flies on manure. You want to talk about Microsoft buying competition, ask current Emagic customers about Apple. Mircosoft buys Virtual PC for a valid reason(server virtualization), Apple buys Emagic to lock their customers into expensive hardware. Mircosoft sues to stop RealPC because the company sold the rights to the program years ago(to the company MS bought BTW). Apple sues a company for making their systems for 1/2 the cost. If Joe Bag O'Donuts can make Macs for 1/2 price using Apple parts, how much is Apple REALLY overcharging for their systems?
4) "Consumer" vs. "Pro"....the whole idea that "consumers"(and boy I hate when I'm refered to as a consumer) need crappy integrated systems and slow hardware comes from Apple. Apple for years hasn't been able to offer workstation level proformance on systems, so they decide "consumers" don't need to do things like upgrade. And to make matters worse, they intentionally cripple their low end of their lines, to not comptete with higher priced offerings. An example is monitor spaning on an iBook..although the video chipset is capable, they intentionaly disable it, so if you want it, you have to buy a higher priced Powerbook. Wouldn't be needed if they could offer REAL reasons to buy higher priced Powerbooks, then to get functionality that they crippled on lower systems. Apple lovers even AGREE with this, because "that's what Apple has to do" As a computer buyer, I want the best for my money, and I don't want intentionally crippled hardware...Apple users disagree.
5) It all "just works" Yes, and my PS2 and Gamecube all "just work" out of the box as well. You stray from what you get via default from Apple, and it's less then 50/50 that it will "just work" Plug in a video cam? Hope it has OSX drivers. I've had better luck with things that "just work" in Mandrake Linux better then in OSX.
I could go on about Apple....but one major question remains....Why is it exactly that people support such a company to such great lengths?
"Mac OS X costs more to make than Apple charges for it."
FreeBSD is free. All they did was put a GUI on top. BFD. Apple is gouging their small base of customers.
Vote for Pedro
Nope. No accident. $1-7-9. That was why he walked around the office bitching about it for an hour. And his options were 1) Buy this adaptor from the only Mac dealer within 100 miles who had it, or 2) don't use his computer any more until he can have one mailed to him from Apple themselves. In light of the fact that his boss took a very dim view of him sitting on his can for the next 3-4 days while Apple sent him a replacement, he paid the $179. And all us PC folk laughed. Masochists, I tell you...
Moves like this are why I absolutely will not buy any apple product at this time, period. I want an open hardware spec. I want to be able to price and buy my own components. I don't want to buy into a lifestyle, I just want to buy a fucking computer. Apple just doesn't let me do that, and I won't give my money to them until they change their ways.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses