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Reports of Psystar's Demise Appear Premature
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Lex Silhouette-Luthor
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No, all the pictures with the right look on his face are to low reso to use.
My exact sentiment... this does expose a BIG flaw in the US judicial system though!
They've got multiple rulings against them saying YOU MUST STOP!!! YOU ALSO OWE APPLE MONEY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE!!!!
And yet they continue to operate with no worries. Why did they take this to court if they didn't intend to respect its orders?
You are just arguing for the sake of arguing. Unless you think that the people who pay more for designer jeans really aren't doing anything but fooling themselves. If I take a piece of cloth and label it Armani then people will be willing to pay more for it because they perceive it as having properties superior to cloth not labelled Armani. This is superstition, on the same level as believing in the tooth fairy.
1. They didn't take this to court, Apple did.
2. If this was a normal business, then you would want them to keep running their business apart from the illegal bits, and make money, so that they can pay damages to Apple at some point in the future. And that kind of decision is very hard for a judge to make.
3. I would hope that if they do anything in violation of the court injunction, the company officers responsible for this would be held _personally_ responsible.
Do distinguishing factors such as the design, cut, fit, grade of denim, style, and finish somehow not factor into the equation of what is considered more highly valued than what is not?
I'll gladly pay more for an expensive pair of designer jeans which accentuates and complements the contours and form of the body better than competitors brands.
Superior qualities, indeed - this is hardly superstition.
Either way - quite conspicuous, ain't it?
I like the car quote but hasn't mac, once made and assembled in the USA and mac pros were $1499 for the creative not in house studios like braci only, brome the chyrsler of jags now? I mean Apple really just caters to mom and pop consumers, iPhone and now even one to one training has become all about iLife now, not highend pro at all like when Pro care came with onr to one, both for $99
I am just don't understand how a company that barely sell few computers still fighting and paying a lot of money to lawyers. How in hell do these guys have so much money with not business at all?
The question is,"Who are the deep pockets backing all this legal action and why??" It would be most interesting to find this out!
Exactly- Ferrari never made inexpensive sports cars, so the comparison is irrelevant. Apple did make relatively affordable towers. All we're asking is that they do so again, or we take our business elsewhere. That is not unreasonable, and it's also what gave companies like Psystar a reason to exist in the first place. The easiest way to put Psystar out of business is to plug that hole in their line up. Probably cheaper than lawsuits and lawyers too.
PowerMacs sold for 1499$ were not even close to the Mac Pros sold today. They were consumer grade hardware. Very much the xMac everyone is crying for.
Again, since you seemed to have missed that fact, Psystar sold less than 800 PCs. If Apple was in the market before and isn't anymore, can you think of any good reasons why ?
Go elsewhere if Apple's products don't fit your needs, stop justifying your unlawful hackintoshing because of it.
I'll do whatever I want. Get over it. If it upsets Apple so much that I build a hackintosh, let them come after me.
Obviously, Psystar scares them enough to take legal action. If they didn't, Apple wouldn't bother with them. There's more to this story.
"We"? Who's "we"? You mean the minority of a minority? There's not enough of you to matter. On Mac forums there's always around 5-6 guys wanting Macs to behave more like generic PCs and expecting Apple cater to them because they assume (wrongly) that the bulk of Apple's market wants this or cares about this.
Give it up, already.
The only "more" to this story is Apple clarifying its IP rights, hence clarifying its business model and getting a green light from regulators.
No one wanted Psystar's garbage. They barely sold any. There's no demand for fake Macs.
Not going to. Deal with it. There's not enough of us to matter? Oh, OK.
We'll see.If no one wants it, then Psystar should go out of business all on it's own, right? Why bother?
The main concern here has to do with the validity and relevance of the EULA, without which, both Apple and Microsoft would be royally screwed.
Psystars business, outside of any shift in precedent, is insignificant to Apple.
Now that makes more sense.
What I really object to here on this forum is people telling me to stop talking and go away. I've used Mac since the 80s. I don't think my opinion is irrelevant, nor do I think I should just be told to shut up.
We got matte screens back on laptops, we can get a mid range tower too. We just have to keep talking.