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Psystar Wins a Round Against Apple
Daengbo writes "'A federal judge last week ruled that Psystar Corp. can continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone maker a rare win in its seven-month-old battle with Apple.
He also hinted that if Psystar proves its allegations, others may then be free to sell computers with Mac OS X already installed.'
Apple is currently suing Psystar over its sale of Mac clones."
No, this is terrible.
This will just allow teh ghay to spread.
One of my major issues with Apple is that they force users to spend through the nose for standard hardware so they can run an OS.
I mean, my other problem is that Macs make people with more money than tech sense tell me that I don't know how to do my job, and that they "just work" - A claim I can almost instantly prove wrong by crashing the bloody things.
Not necessarily.
There are an awful lot of chicks who use Macs. Fire up your OSX partition and woo them with the "ooh, shiny" and make them think that you're an artist or just somebody who(ha HA!) Thinks Differently(TM). Those types get the girlies' stinkboxes wet, and nevermind that Compiz-Fusion runs circles around the OSX GUI, but I digress.
The straights looking for easy pussy can wrestle OSX from MacFaggotry and use it to their advantage.
Steve Jobs is busy being away, dying of AIDS.
The clones have arrived and are back taking a chunk out of Apple's market.
All they need now is a PHB from some unrelated industry to start pulling Apple in different directions, causing it to sink even further.
I think this is the beginning of the end for Apple.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
as soon as PyStar starts selling clones legitimately. Apple continues to fuck consumers over time and time again using exactly identical components as other big name brands and charging a high markup.
Anyone who tells you that Apple is using "high quality" components compared to HP/Sony/Lenovo/etc is 100% lying out of their ass.
Just an anecdotal counterpoint to an anecdotal point... I've had 2 Apple laptops in the last8 years. The first was a Powerbook G4 500mhz that lasted 4+ years and still works just fine... it was finally underpowered is all... and my current 1st Gen Macbook Pro which is on year 3.
I have had issues with batteries on the MacBook Pro, which seem to go through their charge cycle quota rather quickly (replaced under warranty of course) and it may have a problem with the power supply as an underlying issue to that... which is a legitimate problem but one I can live with.
Otherwise I am a very happy customer. I've got an iPhone which works great, a 30 in. Cinema Display which is awesome to behold and an AppleTV with Boxee installed and a 1TB external drive attached... which also works great.
SO I can't back up the claim of shitty hardware, sorry... just typical problems with many laptops out there (battery related), especially after 2+ years of service.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Because, Linux has failed in the way that Sherman anti-trust describes. They have failed to show that they are better by "merit". MS really has shown that they have a friendly/passive monopoly because they got the business based on "merit". Noone tried to compete with MS early on, because no one wanted to work on boring business apps. Now MS has a passive monopoly here and you have the world shouting that it is a real monopoly. Apple is finally showing that other forms of "merit" can take away market share. Openoffice is showing this too. However, both have to be done outside of suing MS for a monopoly because they got the so called business based on "merit"