There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Who knows what the hell Apple wants to do longterm...
Making 'surgical' legal strikes at site to slow down the innevitable progress toward making their OS run on garden variety PC's keps their options open. It makes us aware that Apple is aware of the possibilities. It's like a muscle flex more than a move of desperation. If Apple did nothing, they'd options related to protecting their licenses, copyrights, and patents. Like crypto software in the 1990's, this may simply move the focus of OSX86 hacking offshore. For Apple, it buys time and allows them to assess the impact of their enforcement tactics. It's like a political trual balloon. Watch for the reaction and adjust tactics appropriately.
Notice that they have not taken such action toward other folks intent upon running Windows on the x86 macs. Or Linux on their iPods. Apple got a lot of useful work out of open source programmers with their Darwin project.
I'm in not in total agreement with you on this one. But I can see where you're coming from.
Apple should be concerned, but they're not afraid of Sony. For all the talk of keretsu and the consensus management talk that used to spew forth about Sony, they haven't exactly remained the king of the home entertainment universe. Lest we not forget, we're talking about the company that LOST the Beta/VHS war. And the memory stick/SD battle. And the PDA sortie. The jury's still out on next-gen DVD. They also won the DRM-on-a-CD booby prize. Sony doesn't have a clear perspective on the relationship between digital content and distibution of that content.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity. Who knows what the hell Apple wants to do longterm... Making 'surgical' legal strikes at site to slow down the innevitable progress toward making their OS run on garden variety PC's keps their options open. It makes us aware that Apple is aware of the possibilities. It's like a muscle flex more than a move of desperation. If Apple did nothing, they'd options related to protecting their licenses, copyrights, and patents. Like crypto software in the 1990's, this may simply move the focus of OSX86 hacking offshore. For Apple, it buys time and allows them to assess the impact of their enforcement tactics. It's like a political trual balloon. Watch for the reaction and adjust tactics appropriately. Notice that they have not taken such action toward other folks intent upon running Windows on the x86 macs. Or Linux on their iPods. Apple got a lot of useful work out of open source programmers with their Darwin project.
I'm in not in total agreement with you on this one. But I can see where you're coming from. Apple should be concerned, but they're not afraid of Sony. For all the talk of keretsu and the consensus management talk that used to spew forth about Sony, they haven't exactly remained the king of the home entertainment universe. Lest we not forget, we're talking about the company that LOST the Beta/VHS war. And the memory stick/SD battle. And the PDA sortie. The jury's still out on next-gen DVD. They also won the DRM-on-a-CD booby prize. Sony doesn't have a clear perspective on the relationship between digital content and distibution of that content.