What Is the Issue in the Psystar Case?
Linked by Nescio on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:05 UTC
Apple Numerous irrelevant issues and feelings about them are ventilated in comments on the case. However, there are only two important issues. One is what the law is, the other is what we think the law should be.
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Increasingly academic
by orfanum on Mon 9th Mar 2009 08:54 UTC
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Just last week, on my local Macintosh User Group forum, one of the most knowledgeable about Apple suggested that perhaps the Hackintosh method was the way to go, in a debate about the relative expensiveness of newly launched Apple hardware.

You can argue the toss about the latter point but people generally ain't dumb, especially in these straightened times: over time the Hackintosh will be an increasingly doable, feasible and attractive option, as the community around it and the userbase expand.

When Jobs goes, for whatever reason, and respect to the man in his current condition, there will not be a strategy to deal with this. Not only because he won't be at the helm, flying his particular colours but also because in my view Apple will not be in the personal computer market any longer, and will have no interest in it. It will have become a personal device manufacturer, and OS X will not be available in retail form in its current guise in, I'll be radical, 5 years from now.

So, Apple computer fans and Hackintosh proponents alike - make hay while the sun shines, because the sun will go down on the Apple personal computer business model within half a decade.

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