"I cannot believe that Apple is this selfish in the game. I cannot believe that Apple is willing to put another company under for giving consumers an alternative and maybe getting them interested in Apple computers."
– Jeffrey Powers, Geek News Central, "Shame on You, Apple -- Leave Psystar Alone"
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I cannot believe that Apple is being so selfish as to want to keep making money from its own proprietary work. I cannot believe they're still fully aware of the disastrous consequences to their business of having tried to license their to clone-makers eleven years ago. I cannot believe they'd be so narrowly focused as to refuse to allow their brand to be diluted by reverse-engineered, second-rate commodity imitations.
I just cannot believe it.
For those who weren't aware, Apple's only interest is to maintain the monopoly they hold on the sale of standard, off the shelf hardware that will run an off the shelf, commonly available retail operating system.
The DRM and EULA that Apple uses to prevent this from happening does not exist for the purpose of preventing copyright infringement, the DRM and EULA apple uses exists entirely for the purpose of preventing competition in the market.
Apple has just opened itself up to a massive antitrust suit with this move.
Moeskido,
Are you telling me that I could not build a computer that is much faster and every bit as reliable as the Mac Mini using good quality, name brand, off the shelf parts for less than the price of the mac mini?
The fact that Apple uses license agreements and software limitations to prevent me from doing so and selling the machine built in such a way that an off the shelf copy of an operating system could be installed on that machine violates every intent of every antitrust law in place in this country.
This is like Sherwin Williams filing a lawsuit against a paint brush manufacturer that sells paint brushes that can apply Sherwin Williams paint and unsurping a Sherwin Williams monopoly on the sale of paint brushes.
Apple has a choice. They can quit selling full versions of their software on the retail market or they can allow other companies to produce equipment that competes with their own hardware.
If I were Microsoft I would be rooting for Apple. If Apple looses it will succeed despite itself. Hasn't Steven Jobs learned from Bill Gates YET that the REAL money is in software. Apple users deserve to pay for overpriced hardware that becomes obsolete in 2 years or less.
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