Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 22:13 UTC
PsyStar introduced its Mac clone to much media attention back in April, causing many discussions about the company's legal status, the validity of the Mac OS X EULA, and even PsyStar's very existence. It soon turned out PsyStar was a real company, and was actually shipping the OpenComputer Mac Clone to its customers, to generally rather favourable reviews - not stellar of course, but acceptable, with the biggest downside being the inability to use the Software Update tool, forcing users to download OS updates straight from PsyStar's servers - to prevent updates from Apple hosing the OpenComputer. We're a few months later now, and a few things have changed.
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It doesn't HAVE to be bad for Apple... they just need to improve their business plans and start to actually sell the system... Several PC builders (such as Dell and probably HP and others) are really interested.
But still, the most important thing is that it would be MUCH better to costumers, who would be presented with choices and options to run from vendor lock-in.
(Apple reviewed their plans with iPhone, and instead of selling the hole gadget, and them, receive part of the network's income, they're just leaving the pricing to the networks and charging them a fixed price... Unfortunately it still a closed platform too, but maybe one day it may be not...)