Amended Psystar complaint vs. Apple repeats copyright claims - Page 3

This thread is turning into the kiddie thread.

Murphster, you just don't know what the heck you're even talking about here and you're looking like a fool.

You think the hardware is "off-the-shelf" and then you hear the MB's are custom so you make up some sh*te about that. Give it up man, everyone can see you don't know squat here.

Custom MB design's made with custom parts and patented Apple chips which are also custom. Look it up if you don't believe the people on this thread that are telling you what the truth is. They even use intelligent fan systems with customised firmware and they've been doing that kind of stuff for years.

You are actually so ignorant that you think they just plug a lot of chips onto a MB that they cut to fit with a pair of shears or something? You think the trackpad is the same as any other trackpad? The only parts they buy "off the shelf" are the HD's, the memory chips and the screens, and when they do that, they buy the *best* quality of each.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS PLAIN AS DAY.

Again, just not true.

Look at other posts in this thread or better yet, look it up yourself. This idea that an Apple is just the same parts and made the same way as a Dell box is just a complete falsehood.

The only one showing arrogance here is you. Apple offers a vastly superior alternative to microsoft precisely because it ties the OS and hardware together. The customer service is better because you don't have to deal with multiple vendors, the operating system is better because it doesn't suffer from PC bloatware, & and the hardware is better because Apple tests on higher standards and doesn't have to sacrifice quality to play the price game (just look at where that has gotten Dell: near death).

If you don't like the choices Apple offers you, then, by all means, look into what Microsoft has to offer. If you don't like those choices, then try some Linux distros. The idea that Apple should be required to sell to multiple hardware vendors to satisfy you is ridiculous. Part of why Apple makes such a good all around product is that it's not the populous product that Microsoft is. It doesn't have to be everything to everyone. I'm assuming you like OS X precisely because it lacks the issues which plague Windows, which is why you need to realize that all you're fighting for is to make OS X into Vista.

Apple isn't limiting your choice because it's afraid of hardware competition because it already competes directly against Windows hardware manufacturers. Apple is limiting its (which means not yours) OS to its hardware to give you the benefits inherent in that relationship because it provides a better experience that every single one of its competitors.

You have no legal rights to an operating system because you do not own it in any way, shape, or form. Simply desiring to put it on cheaper hardware doesn't mean Apple has to oblige you. Again, you have many choices other than OS X of which you can take advantage.

And please stop invoking the European Union and Gizmodo in your arguments. The European Union has very little power beyond policing and monetary standards. Its courts have little power in the international realm to do anything more than impose fines. Beyond that, though, the EU is the single worst legal authority you can possibly invoke. The entire thing is falling apart progressively because its structuring and its rulings are providing its population with the exact opposite of their intended effect. The CAP was created to benefit nations with farming subsidies, which is now becoming a drag given the way its currently allotted. And their really is not such thing as realism in EU anti-trust laws. The idea that an operating system cannot ship with anything or else run the risk of being in violation is something even I'll defend Microsoft on. The EU isn't protecting its consumers, it destroying the value in even the simplest products because, again, Europe wants everything to be everything to everyone, which is why none of it will amount to anything. And get real, Gizmodo is the most anti-Apple blog on the face of the earth, especially given how many saintly pieces they run on Bill Gates all while still referring to Steve Jobs as "he who commands the reality distortion field." My g-d, why don't you just quote CNET and its worthless reviews and propaganda.

You're fighting for a false proposition.

Imagine if Psystar got taken seriously. I can just imagine the speech!


"It is 2009 Apple eventually lets Psystar clone Apple machines under license.

Two years later Apple stop selling the hardware due to the fierce competition from the mac clones. The Apple software market is becoming the mainstream over shadowing Windows.

It is 10 years later and apples operating systems have started to lag behind the others because of a lack of money for research and development.

Two years later Apple what was a young fledgling company is now bankrupt because they let the clones in."


Please throw Psystar out straight away.

Man, this is the best debate ever on these forums.

Awesome comments and points made by both sides.
This judge is going to be deliberating until 2012. Or siding with whoever buys him out first.

Personally, I like the software/hardware strategy of Apple. It's what distinguishes Apple from Microsoft. It's what makes Apple great.
It's also why Apple was decimated by Microsoft.
It's also why Apple still sucks the big sweaty nut sack in the sky in some ways.

My dual 2ghz G5 3rd generation, blew up on me 3 weeks after the Applecare ran out on it. Apple's reply was "too f***ing bad.. ha ha, sucker".
After paying $200 for 'Certified Apple Diagnostics', the solution was $1100 for a processor that may or may not be the problem, or $980 for a new logic board that may or may not be the problem.
And Apple's policy is, they don't allow returns on parts. So it was like playing black/red split on a roulette table at the casino.
$2100 to fix a machine 3 weeks out of extended warranty that I paid $400 for.

(oh, and i love how apple made it so that you need an 'Apple certified allen key' to access the processors)

So now i'm kinda in the camp of "gee... wish I could have picked up a part for 1/9th the cost tha t Apple wanted to rape me on, yet don't want to lose the synergy they have with their products.

I do feel stifled by having to use Apple Hardware. Like when I had to pay $740 for the ATI X800 video card for my G5 thats now dead, when the EXACT SAME CARD for PC was $120.

I've had way too many of their products fail on me lately.
So for the purpose of brand loyalty, I guess Apple needs Pystar to win, it could be the best thing for them in the long run.

Bricking is just wrong... on so many many levels. It's so very anti-Apple and everything we, as a community fought against for so long.
It also shows that Apple is afraid it can't innovate enough to stay ahead.
They seem to be following the Sony model of the 90's, with the stores, proprietary equipment, software. Look where they are now.

I guess my wish would be that Apple stops raping people like it's a big freak'n orgy. If it takes Pystar winning the lawsuit to make Apple focused on quality and innovation again... I guess i'm all for it.

Anyone else miss 'Happy Mac'?
That lil dude represented a different corporate attitude.

OK, I'm nuts, but if OSX could run on any manufacturer's PC natively, in a few years MS could easily be out of the OS business.

If in the year 2019, we still have the same situation with OSX (on Apple branded machines ONLY), Windows (even worse than it is now), with only Linux being the sole OS that can be installed on either a PC or Mac- then the future of computing is very bleak indeed. Hopefully, with the ongoing implosion and subsequent restructuring of the global economy -by then - we'll have come to recognize the benefits of a more "open-sourced" landscape for the computing world.

Of course, all the speculation of what will, or will not happen in 10 years from now with computing - will be moot - if our consumption of fossil fuels continues at the rate we are using it now.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/clima...ght-18648.html

And in response to the posters on this thread who are pounding the Apple party line - I commend your undying loyalty to your company (a couple of you have to be Apple employees or stockholders), but sooner or later, whether it is Psystar, or another opportunistic venture, Apple will have to eventually concede it's monopoly on the OSX compatible hardware front ( especially if Apple ignores the economic realities happening right now and continues to release ONLY high end $1000+++ machines ). And now, with Argentina and Germany jumping into Apple's exclusive, OSX hardware pool, it will take even more restrictive efforts and anti-competitive measures from Apple to stem this tide - which will further hurt not only Apple, but all of the fans/users of OSX (PC or MAC).

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...intsrc=hm_list

Apple has been aggressively flaunting it's ability to run Windows on their Intel machines - even in those lame Mac/PC television commercials. Do you Apple Monopolist seriously think that it is going to stay ONLY a one way street in Apple's favor? It has been partly Apple themselves that have sparked and encouraged this "cross-platform" OS integration.

OSX WILL be liberated from Apple ONLY machines - whether any of you like it or not. And in the next few years (when Jobs is long retired), OSX will be pre-installed on computers of all makes, kinds and costs. Those of you who are fighting this are the past. The future is OPEN!

You are seriously missing the point of intellectual property rights. If you buy a photograph of a beautiful scene photographed and copyrighted by Ansel Adams, you can take it home and plaster stuff all over it if you want, but you cannot copy it into your computer, print out a thousand copies of it on photographic paper and sell them for $10 each. This would be a violation of copyright laws and violation of intellectual property rights. This is totally different from buying a piece of lumber, or a bunch of ball bearings.
Your argument sounds to me like the rationalization used by thieves to steal music and to buy one copy of a software program, then make 20 copies for friends. Just because you can do it does not mean it is legal. If you make copies for friends because you don't like the price or the manufacturer it's not only stealing as if you had walked into a store and taken them off the shelf and walked out without paying, it's also mean, malicious and vile. If you make 20 copies of the latest million seller album and even if you give them away, you are still stealing from the musician or artist, who has most likely lost out on 20 more sales. If you don't think the album is worth the $15 or whatever, that still doesn't give you the right to make multiple copies, and it's certainly an immoral thing to do. For example, if you were a programmer, and you spent a year working away on a great new program, then after releasing it you discovered that half the copies in existence were simply copied onto another disc and given or sold cheaper to someone else, wouldn't you be pissed off that you had lost 50% of all the money you should have made after pouring your heart and soul into this project for an entire year? Money which you deserve after having sweated for a year to create this great new product? Of course you would be mad. This is the way to look at this and many other challenges in life, not just whether or not it would make someone mad, but whether of not it is fundamentally unfair and you would feel ripped off it is happened to you.
I don't know all the details of what Psychotic Komputer Kompany is doing, but it sounds like they are buying copies of Mac OS X and then hacking them to make them work on their hardware. If this is true, another false analogy you might come up with (So I will shoot it down now before you use it) is that it's like buying a Ford and taking it to a body shop and getting it modified to look cooler or have fancy fins on it or whatever. However, that is a false analogy, as the OS is the most important piece of how it functions. So a more correct analogy would be you went a bought a Ford, then changed the suspension, the engine and the transmission out (selling them perhaps to someone else for parts), and put cheaper crap in in its place, then you sold it as if it was a Ford. Certainly Ford would be pissed at you when people started wrecking their cars or having them blowup on them, and suing Ford about it when it was your cheap parts that caused the accidents.
Similarly, Apple has the right to come up with it's own products that are an integral mixture of software and hardware, all controlled by them, and not have to support a competing company that wants to rip off the equivalent of hundreds of years of one person working on software development, and then commercially sell it to others without ever paying Apple a cent for all the development work (and NO, the $129 does not begin to cover the hundreds of millions they've put into development over the years, it just gets them a little back from people who've already invested thousands into their hardware which is what really pays to keep them afloat. That's why they can undersell Apple on hardware prices, is by not having to spend 20% of everything they earn to develop the next version, and by buying cheaper crappier parts, and then also the idea that they should be allowed to undersell Apple's own products would actually be VERY detrimental to the consumer, as Apple would probably go under if it had to compete without getting large margins which allow them to have the R&D needed to come up with the next great idea.
So, Microsoft, gets away with ripping off Apple's OS X by developing something of their own that looks a little like the Apple product, but is never as good, so it doesn't matter as much, and it is their right to copy something else as long as they had to do all the programming themselves and work out the bugs themselves etc. However, Psypuke is not allowed to steal Apple's OS and resell it with a crappy box, and especially is not allowed to hack the OS (that is definitely severely illegal ! ! )
So, think about it, if you were Apple, maybe youd decide to license your operating system, but knowing that youd spent many years developing it (as well as paying over $400 million to Next Computers to buy their OS), youd probably lease the OS to other manufacturers for $500 or $700, you certainly wouldnt give away the main reason you have an advantage in the marketplace for a miserable $129. (And remember, if you buy the full version of Windows, it costs around $279, more than double Apples OS price. Part of the reason for this is that they can make up some of the R&D expenses on the price of their excellent hardware, that most people are willing to pay a premium for because they know its so much better.)
In conclusion, I think you havent been looking at it from the point of view of either whats good for the consumer in the long run - which is to let Apple flourish and keep pushing the computing world (and consumer world) forward, nor have you been accurately making analogies. Comparing a very sophisticated OS thats been in the making for nearly 20 yrs (counting the time at Next) to an undifferentiated piece of wood at Home Depot totally misses the point of all the intellectual property rights that are inherent in products that require a lot of originality to produce, as opposed to a piece of wood that anyone can cut to certain dimensions.
I agree with most of the others here that this Thieving company should just all rent a boat, sail out into the Gulf Stream (or the Gulf of Mexico, depending on which Florida coast they are closest to) and tie large boulders around their ankles and throw them overboard. That way we would need less of the hated class of attorneys, and we would be rid of a bunch of expletive deleted amoral, lying thieving, scum who perhaps could then have their 15 minutes of fame by being listed on the Darwins Awards for this year!
Now, similarly, imagine that

Its apple's fault because they put be in the position for a difficult move I would rather not make. But they would rather sell their OS to weak minded lemmings who are only interested in flash and social considerations, not what a computer can actually do. Anyone higher than iLife level they no longer want because they require actual useable features and not gimmicks.


Yeah you can accept a semi-useless laptop on a stick like the iMac, pay twice as much for a workstation which Apple may or may drop in the future like they did desktops, or you can make a perilous, costly, and time consuming move to windows. Wow what a great array of excellent options. What ever one you pick you end up losing.

I wouldn't go that far, but 30-40% would not be unreasonable. The OS is capable of far more than what Apple's current lineup is.


Would you rather have this scenario:

The current fad ends and most of the switchers return to windows like they did with the original Bondi iMac, Apple's strong-armed irreparably harmed its relationship with professional users (the ones who were buying Macs when nobody else was), and Apple's relationship with mobile developers leads them to focus on android or WebOS. Who is left to keep Apple afloat? Psystar and their basement factory are of no concern to Apple, but they are a sign that all is not right. They're burning way too many bridges for their profits. If Apple wants to go completely in the mainstream consumer direction, that's their choice. Don't hold the people that allow them to be in the position for these huge profits hostage to do it. If they don't want to make certain types of machines, let someone else do it. The road they're traveling may be fruitful now, but sooner or later their choices will catch up with them.

Apple knows that switching is a big step for people, hence their very successful campaign to get people to switch. They will even migrate your files from old system to your new system for free in Mac Stores.

Apple AND Windows use proprietary file systems. But Microsoft not offering a way for non-technical users such as yourself to go back to Windows easily is somehow Apple's fault? I don't think you've really thought this through.

It's capable of far less, too. Running on fa less, that is. It ran great on my MSI WInd. One of the most important aspects was the power management of OS X. With Netbooks you get small batteries, which reduce cost, weight and size so having an efficient OS is important.

Note: That does not mean I think Apple should be forced to sell its OS to any vendor and produce a machine that any forum poster can dream up just because it suits their particular needs.

Really, will they move my files from the iMac to another brand because they have chosen to no longer make an affordable machine that is suitable?


Another great example of how much Ive and Jobs are stifling this OS.


Dream it up? Apple made it for many many years. In fact there was a time not too long ago when the PowerMac was considered Apple's flagship. They just choose to discontinue it (Note, the MacPro is step beyond the G-series PowerMacs, not a replacement) because of a personal preference for pretty and thin but severely bottlenecked all in ones.

Don't be an ass!

You have only yourself to blame for your issues with Apple.

We live in a world where people can "own" intellectual property & sell that IP to whomever they wish. A lot of people & companies do this. Hence, consumers get to choose from a dizzying panoply of IP - art, computers, music, cars, houses, clothing, literature, &c, etc.

Your argument, more properly directed against yourself than Apple, becomes neutered when we recall that in in our world full of all kinds of IP to buy - we have choice. Choice to buy or not buy, use or not use. With choice comes responsibility. A responsibility to be aware of what we are getting ourselves into with our choice(s).

If I choose to cross the road against traffic & become struck by a car - whom do I blame, BenRoethig, myself or the driver? I believe you would blame the driver of the car. I would blame myself for making a poor, poor choice.

I see a lot of self-entitled consumeritis in your words. Get that checked out, or it can worsen over time.


Oh, by the way, you can transfer files on your Mac to an NTFS drive using a cool little program called Macfuse.

http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archiv...fs_drives.html

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

Ditto


Dude, Ben, start your own PC/OS manufacturing company. Last time I checked, you are totally free to start competition against any company you feel is making an inferior product. In fact, I strongly suggest to _anyone_ who has an argument with Apple's "limits" they impose on their IP - start your own company & make a better product.

Do you have any idea what the definition of monopoly even is. Most of us aren't even trying to push Apple's party line, we just find your complete misinterpretation of copyright law frustrating. There are several businesses who successfully use the same business model as Apple who would have to compromise their entire structure to accommodate your ridiculous demands (RIM being a good example).

10% does not constitute a monopoly (even 25% doesn't reach that echelon of law). You're astounding ego doesn't change that fact. Again, Apple is an entire package, not just an operating system. Just because you only like one piece of it, doesn't give you the right to demand it.

A semi useless lap-top on a stick? Wow, my iMac runs Aperture 2, Final Cut Express 4. Adobe Creative Suite 4, & acts as a server admin on a daily basis and works perfectly. The Mac Pro is for people who seriously need high end computing, that's why it's a workstation, not a simple computer. And Apple does not sell its OS to weak minded people, it simply a consumer oriented business, not an enterprise oriented one.

What a tool you are. A semi - useless laptop o a stick? What amazing things are you doing in your advanced underground lair? Such tiresome trash - the Apple tax and all that. The divide between Mac and PC prices has been getting slimmer and slimmer. I've had my iMac on for literally *months* at a time without a crash in my music studio, where I routinely run many plugins and haven't had any problems with it.

Go to PC land, feel good about your $500 Windows box or whatever you are boobing on about. Your sense of entitlement is silly. Having used iLife since its inception, I don't think its all "flash and social considerations."

Boy, all of you Apple Flacks are getting to be seriously over-zealous, thin skinned, and an increasingly cranky bunch of orthodox parishioners in the church of Mactology - even resorting to foul name calling - like "ass" and "tool", and ironic accusations of "amazing ego"- without realizing that the man with the most "amazing ego", is Heir Jobs himself.

And please, stop with all your "copyright, copyright, copyright" mantra drivel. Like copyright laws are sacrosanct or impugnable as they stand and are used/misused in the US right now.

Using copyright protection as a method of stifling competition and enforcing anti-competitive practices (as all the drug companies do with their despicable "extended patents"), is the oldest trick in the book and does end up slowing down direct competition for a time, but inevitably, outside challenges to these "copyrighted" fortresses, will end up busting down the "copyrighted" gates to the heathen barbarians outside (Psystar etc). And yes, I do consider Apple a "monopoly" - their business model consisting of controlling every aspect in anything Apple produces, does, says, or even thinks - right down to the most minute detail of public perception.

Apple may be the best of the worst - as American businesses go right now, but the little "computer company that could" is surely looking and acting more and more like the evil empire Microsoft each and every day...
I can't even keep track of the number or new anti-competitive, anti-trust, anti-consumers, patent infringement suits that are filed against Apple and their practices (especially connected with iTunes, iPod, and iPhone) this past month alone.

Oh, to be such a beleaguered , misunderstood behemoth. Do we rabble not see that it was Apple who prodded us all to "Think Different"?
But to think really differently (like outside of Apple's business model box), would be a bridge too far I think.....

Whatever became of that pretty blond in a track suit that threw the hammer at the screen?

So so basically you're saying that record companies should be forced to compete with people making music avaiable online for free. And movie studios should priced their DVD's to complete with those black market movies you find at a flea market. Rather than have the right to enforce copyright laws to protect their IP from being stolen in the first place. Do you really think that any company that invested a lot money to develop their IP can make the same amount of profit as those that choose to steal that IP and sell it for less? And how does the consumers benifit when companies calls it quit and stop making CD's, DVD's and new drugs because there's nothing in place to protect that they can even recover the cost it takes to do so? Everyone would just sit around and wait for some else to spend the money to develop something new and then just steal that idea for their own use.

You can't tell a drug company to invest the billions of dollars it takes in R&D to develop an inhalable insulin. And when they do, turn around and tell them they no longer have the any rights to the drug and let any company market that product. If they knew that in the first place they wouldn't have even invested a dime into the R&D to develop it.

If it weren't for the protection of copyright laws, OSX would not even exist today. What company in their right mind would spend the hundreds of millions of dollars it take to develop an OS just so that others, that have incurred no developement cost, gets to use it for next to nothing? (Let's not forget that the relative low price of the retail OSX is to reward those that already invested in a Mac. And now Psystar wants to try to screw that up by claiming they have the same rights as a user that already purchased a Mac.)

I want to be recognized for saying these Psystar guys have a perfectly good case here, for many months now. And most of all, they are not idiots. It is not idiotic to take a gamble that may pay off huge.

Just because nobody is doing something, doesn't mean it is a legally impossible thing to do. Maybe everybody else is dumb. Maybe Apple clones are perfectly legal. It will be decided in court, not on these boards.

My prediction is Psystar will be a success story and get an increasing amount of press. In time, the front page of the New York Times may take notice, because it is a relatively neat story. We all assumed Apple clones are illegal, but inside the word "assume" is "ASS," "U" and "ME."

Wrong.

Go buy a LGA771 socket board from Intel. Now open up the Mac Pro LGA771 socket motherboard and compare.

What's that? You don't own a Mac Pro and don't have a standard Intel LGA771 socket motherboard around?

Not my problem. Prove they are the same or keep minimizing yourself that your word is fact when it's just opinion.

A Drill is a Drill. However, a $49 Ryobi drill from HomeDepot is not a $200 Milwaukee, is not a $200 DeWalt, is not a $200 Makita yet they all attemt to address the same tasks.

They all look very similar, claim to be 18V litihium rechargeable portable drills yet the Ryobi is a POS and I'd be a f'n moron if I used one on any job and wanted to be a respected GC in both the commerical and residential Construction Industry.

But you go ahead and keep claiming that a trackpad is a trackpad is a trackpad. That a laptop is a laptop is a laptop but the difference is one is more stylish than the other one.

What good would it be for anyone if Psystar win the case and Apple decided not to sell retail copies of Mac OS anymore?! Apple can choose another delivery system or sale strategy to stop Mac clones from getting their hands on legal copies of Mac OS DVDs in bulk quantities. Then we are back to where we started.

This conversation isn't going to get anywhere. He's just like every other western european snob I've ever met (and I love Europe): simply can't understand why he isn't allowed to do anything he wants with absolutely anything he sees. I'd imagine he's from The Hague, where they have public urinals on the sidewalk. I don't mean to hate on Europe, but since he keeps using European legal thought as the basis for his arguments, I find it hard not to.

Quite honestly, he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. He simply wants to run OS X on cheap hardware and can't stand that Apple won't provide him with such, all the while going on and on about something he has already hacked other computers to do. After all, he apparently finds Apple giving its own press conferences to be monopolistic.

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This quote is from Lawrence Lessig's site - one of the founders of the "creative commons" project:

"I'm very concerned that some forms of IP law have lost that balance. The example on which I have worked most is drug patent law. When drug companies create a drug that reduces pain or cures disease, they of course deserve a fair return. But drug patents should not last forever, and they should not be extended through legal manipulation. Unfortunately, many drug manufacturers routinely try to block legitimate competition from generic drugs by making meritless patent claims just as their real patent protection is expiring. After hearing about these problems firsthand in the Senate Health Committee, I helped write legislation to prevent these abuses and to make sure that lower-cost generic drugs reach the market without improper delays. A version of that bill is one of the few good parts of the prescription drug benefit now being negotiated.
Concern about excessive patent protection goes beyond prescription drugs. The Federal Trade Commission just issued a provocative study recommending substantial changes in the way our patent system works."

DavidW wrote: "If it weren't for the protection of copyright laws, OSX would not even exist today."
Oh, don't be so dramatic. Of course OSX would exist today - even without their molopolistic, OSX can be installed on Apple hardware ONLY, non-compete clause in their EULA. They probably would have to charge more for it (as Microsoft does), but I'd have no problems with that in the slightest. I'd be very willing to pay at least double what OSX's base retail price is right now. I just don't want them purposely crippling, or limiting my use of my retail copy of OSX after I purchased it - to Apple ONLY hardware - unless they happen to be the best machines on the market for OSX installed. If Apple wants to sell their hardware without anyone copying or infringing on their designs and custom features - all the power to them. And if they really are the machines that people want, or like best, or are the best value for the consumer to run OSX, then Apple will sell their hardware very competitively, or even dominate- without having to resort to Apple ONLY restictions . If they are not, then LET competition offer an alternative hardware option.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/a...?articleid=978

Apple will survive quite well - even if they lose to Psystar (remote but possible). Ya'll are just worried about your Apple share prices...

When Lessig actually produces goods and services, then I'd love to see him reevaluate his observation.

This is a good point and I have no clue as to the answer. I hope Apple makes lots of money because I am a fan and a shareholder. That said ---- on its face, I feel Apple is wrong in its claims of immunity from hardware competition. It is an odd claim they are making. Their logic is getting more tortured and awkward all the time. It is a nightmarish scenario because even with $100 million worth of lawyers, Apple is forced to deal with some ghastly issues that threaten to drain billions out of the company. Who was powerful enough to do this? One or two guys, a garage and a cheap lawyer. This isn't Microsoft engaging in petty harrassment. This is a couple poor guys with a fairly fundamental point about law. For the FBI to come in and physically shut Psystar down, Apple would need to crest some extremely high legal barriers. The burden of proof is on Apple. This is the genius of the Psystar plan.

Answers:

1. I don't want to live in a world where if I license my work to someone, they feel like they can do with it whatever they want, irregardless of how it damages my rights and future money making potential.

2. Apple does not prevent you from customizing how you interact with the OS. They ARE however, protecting you from modifying their code and then using these modifications to make money at their expense. I'm a photographer. I license my work to my clients. That does not give them the right to use or modify my photography in ways not specified by the usage agreement. Also, it does not give them the right to do whatever they want to my work and make a profit from my work. Doing so would harm the integrity of my work and hurt my business. This is how it should be.

3. Apple does not prevent this. However, you run the risk of voiding your warranty if you choose to do so. This is how every business in the industry works. Again, this is how it should be.

4. Not an issue.

5. Improvements according to whom and after these "improvements" are made, who is expected to support the changes? If you don't want to abide by Apple's licensing agreement, don't buy the product. If you want to be able to freely modify the code of an OS, pick an open source OS such as Linux.

6. You have a choice. You don't like the options, choose a different phone and carrier. Do you also complain about not being able to play Playstation games on your XBox? Would you support forcing MS or Sony to support competing platforms? What kind of world would it be if you can't invent something without having your competitive advantage taken away from you?

Seriously, you must live in your own little world where you get everything you want without having to work for it and without having to give credit to those who do.

Apple went out of their way to brick people's phones.

People spent HUGE money on their little piece of technology, and when they wanted to do fun and interesting things with that purchase, Apple pushed the self-destruct button on them.

It was... punishment.
OBEY OR DIE

You can throw around all the "security" & "legal" bullshit you want, it doesn't make the bricking code right, or in the best interest of the consumer. They could have simply just stated that they won't support a modified phone, and let people do what they want with them. Instead, they punished people like an angry alcoholic parent.

And yes, they did intentionally brick the phone.

Apple has gone out of their way to make 1984 more of a reality then any other company in some ironic twist.

I agree with a previous poster... Apple is acting more evil then Microsoft ever did. For Apple's sake, I hope Pystar wins. \

They also entered into the agreement knowing the terms, decided they didn't like the terms after purchase and took action to circumvent the terms, knowing that Apple would not support them. By doing what they did, they (as a group) diminished Apple's right to profit from their invention, then cried foul when Apple said "no, we're not going to let you."

There was a choice when people spent their money on the iPhone. If you don't want to live with your choice, you can't blame Apple but rather, your own stupidity. Apple did not hold a gun to these people's head and forced them to dish out hundreds of dollars for their phone.

You sound like a spoiled brat who doesn't care how your actions hurt others as long as you get what YOU want.

What incentive would a company have to create innovative products if they lose their rights once the product enters the market?

Apple receive alot of revenue from the app store, that was one of the drives for them to make the iPhone. If everyone could easily jailbreak an iPhone and get that software for free then they (and the app developer) are going to lose money and at the end of the day they are a company and thats what they do. At the end of the day its cracking apples software, its illegal!

Would you please stop spewing garbage and answer the question we're all getting at: if OS X is open to multiple vendors then what ultimately makes it any different than Windows? Sure, it will still be coded better, but customer service, by definition, will cease to be anywhere near good, especially since these new vendors will have absolutely no experience whatsoever with the operating system. Innovation will be stifled because now a myriad of different hardware components will have to be coded for, and now that the system is open to anyone, it will automatically be put on machines with specs to low to handle it and filled with adware to bring down the price. And my nature of being fully mass market, it will, while better handling them, soon be plagued with a number of viruses that will then require resource consuming anti-virus. Being a minority is, in and of itself, sometimes a strategy.

Again, this is why we all left Windows: it was a terrible experience precisely because there was no control. Other than your own desire to use cheap hardware, what exact difference do you see being resultant from such a change? All things being equal, people would buy Windows, not OS X because they're more familiar with it. Why do you like OS X? Answer that and let's see where this conversation goes.

It's not even simply revenue, it's also that by circumventing the OS, things that AT&T doesn't want taxing its network become fair game. And under that auspice why should it partner with Apple in the first place if one party isn't going to stick to its agreed terms. I have to agree with the other poster, most of you sound like spoiled brats.

What exactly is the point your trying to make? I'm sorry about your G5, but my local Apple Store has replaced plenty of stuff for me out of warranty over the years. And Apple isn't exactly in control of the prices IBM and AMD charge for replacement parts. Again, I'm sorry they're expensive, but you're ultimately blaming the wrong company. Apple certifies and installs the parts, but it doesn't make them. And it's not the exact same card: one is running OpenGL and the other is likely on DirectX 9 and there are a few hardware differences and software differences inherent in that. One question, though: how exactly did you procure a PowerMac G5 for $400 (or did you mean $4,000)?

And I disagree with your Sony comparison. Sony had, and still very much has, the habit of always creating a competing format standard in order to reap royalty fees. It always does this in adversity to already popular standards such as DVD and HD-DVD. Sony has never once offered the consumer any real benefit (beyond minor storage space) from these separate standards. Apple does and in some cases, such as Fairplay, had to adopt these standards because of external pressure from media studios. And, by the way, Sony had more problems than simply pushing too many standards on people, it also suffers from a fractured development staff that provides the overall company with an incomplete and incoherent vision. Now, what is this bricking is always wrong nonsense? How on earth are you so provide a retail space for business partners when the entire ecosystem can be usurped without anyone contesting it.

Last question: how old is this Mac hardware whose failure rate you complain about?

Your numbers don't add up. A PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 Ghz was introduced on October of 2005. If you purchased your Mac when it first became available and you got an extended AppleCare at the time you bought it, then you were covered under warranty till October 2008. That's less than 4 months ago. You can get a used PowerMac G5 Dual 2 Ghz for less than $800 on eBay right now. That includes ram, HD, drives, PS, Etc.. You can probably sell yours, as is, for $200.

And most people don't buy the extended AppleCare at the time they purchase the Mac. It already comes with a 1 year limited warranty. And you can purchase AppleCare anytime with in the year. So if you had waited until August of 2006 to purchase AppleCare for your Mac, your Mac would still be under warranty today.

And $400 for AppleCare on a Power Mac seems high. The most expensive AppleCare is usually on their expensive laptops. AppleCare for a MacBook Pro only cost $350, today. It only cost $250 for AppleCare on a MacPro. Which is now at least a $2800 Mac.

I'm not even going to ask how you manage to pay $740 for a graphic card that was nearly two years old when the PowerMac Dual 2 Ghz came out. And had a list price of $500.

I would like to see what would happen if someone came along and took your product, re-badged it and sold it on as their own and paid you nothing. You then started to recieve support calls and complaints as your product wasn't working as it should or and update to your product broke theirs.

How would you react??

Apple sells Mac's. Mac OSX is Apple OS for their Mac's. Mac OSX is sold separately as an UPGRADE for existing Mac owners. Whenever Apple talks about OSX sales they talk about the number of Mac owners who have 'Upgraded' to OSX 10.xx.

I hope that Apple withdraws all copies of Mac OSX from stores and forces all Mac owners to purchase the upgrade online by providing their Mac serial number. This will prevent companies like Psystar from buying the software and selling it on their machines. Then the only way they would be able to do this would be through piracy, which would be an end to them.

The Rowling Harry Potter case sheds a lot on light on copyright law.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/158...415/id_0.jhtml

Rowling won.

Very drastic measures for something that is not a corporate crisis for Apple don't you think?