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Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-foil-hats dept.

rgraham writes "From the article on Growler: 'Apple apparently believes that somebody else is behind Psystar, which might help to explain why a major law firm would take on what seems like a fly-by-night's case; also why Psystar has been so bold in continuing to sell its products. I knew this thing felt funny. As Alice in Wonderland might put it, "It gets interestinger and interestinger."'"

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  1. Re:sounds familiar by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    it's a baiting scam. first they sell a couple million psystars with OSX, then when justice says all of those copies must be wiped from the hardrives and returned to apple, owners will have to replace the OS with vista.

    they annoy apple senselessly AND cash in a couple million sales. win-win for redmond

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  2. Re:Awwww... by theaveng · · Score: 5, Interesting

    QUESTION:

    Why is it illegal to clone Apple Macintosh computers, but it was not illegal to clone the IBM PC? Why is Apple protected, but IBM was not? What's the distinction?

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  3. Apple is behind it! by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apple probably hired pystar to create a weak but precedent setting test case they could smash.

    More seriously,
    one can claim pystar is somehow a good value or something but this takes sheer cognative dissonance since it's impossibly far from the truth.

    THat is to say, if you are buying an apple it's either for aethetics, ease of use for grandma or the volunteers at your non-profit, or compatibility, or the relatively low cost of tech support, set up, and training.

    Now let's think about this. Does pystar meet any of those features? uh.... No. not one. they are loud, highly idiosyncratic, hard to keep updated, and a support nightmare, and many softwares and hardware devices won't work.

    What's the market? cheapness? well certainly not at the low end. And at the high end--well it you want performance and dont care about comptibility then get a PC or a linux machine?

    it's the OJ simpson defense: it does not fit.

    But Apples implication that it's just a loss leader. Shove anything out the door so you can get a foot in the door makes a lot more sense.

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