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Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs
Da'Man writes "The Psystar saga takes another series of turns. Not only is the website down but an examination of the suit filed by Apple shows that the Cupertino Goliath wants Psystar to recall all Open Computer and OpenServ systems sold by the company since April. It seems that Steve Jobs is out to totally sink Psystar and put an end to Mac clones."
You are in dreamland and you make no sense. Apple do not have $1000 of extra hardware, they have butchered generic products, behind the current PC models, and with huge markups. Go cost a 4GB RAM upgrade for a mac pro, do the same for a PC on the same CPU, now do the same for video, oh, you can't, apple only off a couple of options, even though the slot is PCIe.
The only thing you can drop into a mac pro, which is just an intel box with poor cooling, is a hard drive. Any you better hope you know what do do in the event of a drive failure, mac pros do not boot if a drive goes, even if the drive in question has nothing to do with system files.
Every tried upgrading hardware and the OS on a mac? Probably not. If you had, you'd know that even from the latest OS, if you need to reinstall, you have to revert to the original video card. Yes, even though you may be on the latest OS X, it won't start install unless your old crappy card is back. Yay! Even microsft doesn't have this rubbish.
Precisely. But since Apple is just brand image, they really do have no choice.
Yeah. OS X is crap. It's not even really a real operating system. It's all shiny, nothing else. That whole UNIX certification thing is just eye-candy.
And those systems they sell? Crap. Fall apart constantly, people bitch about them, take them back, don't get support provided for them.
And their software? Also crap. Those professional photographers who use Aperture just do it for the image, not because they like it better.
And iLife? Crap. No one can figure out how to make it work. It's been an utter disaster.
I mean really, why do they even bother? Shit, everyone knows that all you need to be successful is a good brand. If your product sucks donkey balls, you'll still be profitable, year after year. All you need is a good brand! Experience doesn't matter, quality doesn't matter. Just brand! 100% of Apple's success is due to their brand, not because they make good products. Obviously!
Why are you comparing apple to Microsoft and Dell????
Microsoft is a software company that sells a video game console and digital music player as a side business.
Dell.....WTF does Dell make other then PCs and rebranded TVs??????
Apple sells music in a digital format and digital music players with software to integrate the two. They also continue to make computers as a service to their long term customers.
Read RTFAR. The best thing Apple could ever do for their investors is discontinue the Mac and OS/X.
Being tough on those people may be able to get them a few more months so they can make a profit.
I don't dispute this. But I do have a problem with any business model which relies on stifling innovation and openness. To me, the means don't justify the ends.
And because God himself ordained it so, it is good !!
Death to the Clones !!
Death to the clone Users !!
It is so written.
Ahhh-hmmmm
While I agree with pretty much everything you say I didn't want to offend the notoriously sensitive Apple users here, hence the brevity of my initial post ;)
Say what you want about Microsoft, but at least they never leveraged their OS dominance by producing a "Microsoft PC" and then "phasing out" all the other hardware manufacturers.
"Phasing out"? What are you talking about?
And let's not even get into the fact that Apple competes via lawsuit orders of magnitude more often than Microsoft.
Bollocks. You're just making shit up because you hate Apple.
Changing the license agreement a la Apple so that Windows would only run on their own hardware they produce.
What, like 10 years ago? So what? They made a business decision. It's their product. Why shouldn't they?
Are you serious? Apple is notorious for their lawsuits, starting from the infamous "look and feel" many moons ago.
Yes, I'm serious. You claim Apple is "orders of magnitude" more litigious than Microsoft. Prove it.
One thing to remember is that Apple sells and supports a whole experience.
That includes stuff like easy setup of an audio/video chat client.
How do you plan to do video chats with your buddies on an all-in-one machine from psystar?
Well, if you can't, then you're not getting the Apple experience, and I don't blame Apple for protecting their business model.
On the more important side, I do hope to see a rulling on shrink-wrapped licenses. But whether it will get to that or not is beyond my law knowledge.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
NIGGER
I think Apple would still be a good company if they had a monopoly.
You say that as if Apple had been a good company at any time.
Apple has always be a closed pro bully-lawsuit corporation. Just look at their sue happy history.
Oh, and not only sue happy, but actively trying to remove internet comments from people that do not agree with their views or criticize them.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
I'll try not to pull a troll moment here either, but what differentiates the iPhone, just like the Mac itself, is its user interface.
You hear a lot of "yeah but... it doesn't have any more features than XYZ" -- mostly from people who don't really understand why everyone isn't running linux, now that these days you only need to edit one or two config files by hand...
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Offense:
Psystar = Stolen Identity
Power Computing = Speeding
Your License Please - Power Computing:
http://www.streamstudio.com/images/pcc_6lg.jpg
Low End Mac:
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/07/0220.html
Quit yer bitchin': Used Macs
http://www.macofalltrades.com/
~hylas
but I don't find anything particularly innovative about either the iPhone
Oh come *on*!
A smartphone with 3G???
Apple are the *kings* of innovation. Only Steve could have thought of that! Sheer unparalleled genius!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
This is a stupid argument, and I suspect you knew it. "OSX computers" is not a separate market, as practically anything that can be done with "OSX computers" can also be done with "Windows computers" or "Linux computers". If there's an interchangeable replacement, it's not a separate market.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."