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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Member since:2007-09-17
The easy way for Apple to progress forward and benefit is to open up their platform to competition
You're right -- because they're doing so badly otherwise :-)
Seriously though, I don't get it when people say "Apple needs to do this" or "Apple should do that". As I understand it, the company is selling more Macs than ever, so there's no way that letting OS X loose on generic white-box hardware will happen.
Member since:2005-08-26
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2006-09-15
The easy way for Apple to progress forward and benefit is to open up their platform to competition. Allow other vendors to sell their software and adhere to open standards with their software but make sure that these vendors adhere to guidlines that don't compromise the usability of Apples Software. We all know that now for Apple it is about the software which really differentiates them so why not capitalise on it.
I might even be able to present Apple as an alternative OS if this happens but I will not whilst they still insist on standards and hardware lock-in.