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Apple Files Suit Against Psystar
Reader The other A.N. Other, among others, alerts us to the news that Apple has filed suit against Psystar, the unauthorized clonemaker. (We've been discussing Psystar from the start.) The suit alleges violation of Apple's shrink wrap license and trademarks, and also copyright infringement. News of the lawsuit, filed on July 3, first surfaced on a legal blog. There's speculation that the case has been sealed.
Wouldn't it be nice if they fought this? If they said, hey, we bought your software, we can install it on whatever we want. And then, in my imaginary world, a judge sees their point of view and rules that once you purchase a piece of software, it's yours to do with as you please.
This is definitely insightful. I would love to be able to purchase a commercial application, come home and throw it in the cd duplcator, spit out thousands of copies and sell them at discounted prices.
It's mine because I bought it and can do what I want with it, right?
So why don't they then?
Because Steve is a control freak who likes selling a boutique all-in-one unit that he has total control over. The fact that he would make more money or have a far greater marketshare is less important than the fact he has total control.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Because Mac Users are trained to look past the flaws and defects in Apple products, by being told that if they used PCs and Windows, it would be much worse. Much like North Korea tells their citizens that it is much worse in Europe and the USA and in NK it is paradise. That is why Apple gets highest consumer satisfaction rates, due to the Pro-Apple Propaganda that passes as news. Plus many people are paid to post positive reviews on Apple products and post negative reviews on non-Apple products, maybe you remember that Guy Kawasaki was paid to promote Apple products and write books to support them? Like the Macintosh way, it is basically Apple's little red book of propaganda.
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I fully agree with the above above poster. Rate of failure seems higher to me too from personal experience. . And I trust that more than independent studies that are not done over long period of time.
Sorry, but Consumer Reports has a larger sample size tested over a longer period than you do I bet. They've been evaluating Apple systems alongside other vendors for a decade at least and Apple has consistently been at the top of the heap for low failure rates. Personally, I've had more Apple machines die on me than IBM, but when you look at the last company I worked for (a couple hundred of each) it goes the other way by quite a bit.
You can post all the anecdotes you want, but find me a real, professional study with a good sample size like those published by Consumer Reports to back up your opinion if you want me to take it seriously. I paid for the Consumer Reports study and our IT dept. paid for several other evaluations over the years. They were largely in agreement. I haven't seen even one that puts Dell above Apple for hardware reliability, even for laptops in the last year (Dell's strongest category).
If Apple made a "non folding" desktop Mac, your analogy might actually make some sense.
On another note, for the price of a MacBook Pro, I can get a gaming laptop from Sager with a quad core, 4GB RAM, and 9800M GTX. "Very high performance graphics engine"? Not really. Apple hardware is way overpriced, I don't see how you can reach any other conclusion.
If it's all marketing then why does Apple have the highest consumer satisfaction rates in the entire industry?
If their products were crap, or even equivalent, consumers would not speak so highly of them, for so long after their purchases.
Um, marketing and borderline mindwashing is exactly what this is and why they get these results.
Go read the Psychology of Influence or heck even go look up any mislead cult in history. When people 'invest themselves' into a product or idea, they will support it until it bites their leg off, and often even after that.
Apple marketing is not far from a cult, as they USE THE SAME PRINCIPLES. (Stuff other marketing companies won't freaking do because of 'ethics'.)
Go look up what manipulation 'wins you' in this world. The koolaid comments that come from Jonestown are meant to strike a cord. Many survivors of Jonestown cult took years of deprogramming, and this is after their friends and family were murdered from 'good marketing masking reality'. (Hint: The koolaid was NOT the magical drink that fixed everything.)
You also discount how hard Apple works to keep people quiet. From the Apple message boards, to the stores, you would be freaking amazed at the level Apple will go to kill the truth.
Do you realize how many journalist have received free Apple computers and products in the past five years alone? Basically enough that they have become one of the largest userbase of Macs and 'iPhones'.
I know or work with about 2000 journalists, and every one of them have been offered free products from Apple, and the ones that decline still joke about finally saying yes so they can use it as a doorstop and get the Apple people to shut up and quit bugging them about taking the free stuff.
So how 'unbiased' do you think the journalists are, especially the ones that are OUTSIDE the tech industry and don't find it a conflict of interest and TAKE THE FREE iPods, Macs, iPhones, etc from Apple... (Besides the fact even Tech journalists often take the crap for home use, or resign as calling themselves 'journalists' so they can get the freebies.)
Remember the Windows guy that got news because he was abandoning Vista and moving to OS X? The real story is he stopped calling himself a technical journalist also got several thousands of dollars in free hardware from Apple. The story had NOTHING to do with Vista or Windows, it had to do with him being borderline broke, as a TV 'has been' of ZD TV. At least it was a computer company he sold out for, and at least he admits it...
So knowing this about the 'press', you...
Hear about the high fail rate of Airbooks?
Hear about how Apple downclocks Video card speed in both notebooks and iMacs because of Thermal problems? (This is not the NVidia issue of recent news either.)
Hear about the high reports of incompatible hardware with 10.5 (and Apple controls the hardware even)?
Hear about the LCD screens in Mac books, their inconsistency prompting lawsuits, and the findings showing Apple knew they were shit and didn't care?
Hear about how 10.5 Leopard has been out less time and has 20x the security flaws than Vista?
Hear about all the imcompatibility with software 10.5 had, where the software list ended up being longer than the MS published list for known software Vista would break? (Apple let users find out on their own, nice uh?)
Hear about the 10.4 users that HATE 10.5?
Hear about the 10.4 users that had to upgrade to 1GB of RAM and new video cards to run 10.5 - you know EXACTLY like Apple made fun of PCs for in their TV ads for Vista?
And there are hundreds of headlines like this that never make it to the news or even off the Apple message boards. GOOGLE or YAHOO or LIVE this crap, you might just get a bit shocked, depending on the level of indoctrination you have fallen to.