Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Jul 2009 22:21 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems We haven't discussed Psystar in a while, have we? In case you've been living under a rock for a while, Psystar is a Mac clone maker entrenched in a legal battle with Apple. Recently, Psystar changed lawyers, and today they posted a vigorous entry on their website about how ready they are for the fight with Apple.
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If Apple was smart...
by cutterjohn on Thu 30th Jul 2009 14:27 UTC
cutterjohn
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2006-01-28

they'd sell the OS for use on any x86 hw.

After all they COULD mitigate hw sales cannibalization by providing slower updates for the generic OSX version. e.g. not release the latest version until 6m or so after it was shipping with Apple hw/store for macs.

They could also limit support provided for use on non-Apple hw, although I'm not at all certain how the legalities of that would play out, but in the case of something like Psystar or other "clone" sellers they could likely legitimately provide zero support leaving it up to the "clone" seller to support.