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Soli said:

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." —Arthur Schopenhauer

"There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted."  —Arthur Schopenhauer

ITGUYINSD said:

Would someone who was seriously considering the new Mac Pro change their mind and purchase this case and DIY parts and build a Windows PC instead?  No. 

How is this hurting Apple?

Brand recognition is important for promotion of the product.  If other brands look the same, then Apple loses the benefit of having recognizable projects.  This is a constant battle in many industries.  Daring high end manufacturers come out with a design nobody has seen before.  Because people want to be identified as having the leading-edge whatever it is (jacket, purse, car, phone, computer..) they'll buy the product made by the new designer (or under license from the designer).  Clone vendors make mimic designs to catch that sudden market.  What the leading-edge designer wants is brand recognition so people buy their product to look stylish.  What the leading-edge designer is rightfully afraid of is losing this value.  Worse, when a cloner makes a really crappy copy, in performance, survivability, danger (hurting somebody) then it could appear that the leading-edge designer was at fault.  The leading-edge designer is only able to spend the time and money making the designs and producing them because they can get money for the design.  

This has been going on since the beginning of the industrial revolution, or before if you count counterfeit art and whatnot.   This is "bad".  People who knowingly support the theft of intellectual property (IP) are hurting the leading edge designer, and the market for leading edge designs.  If IP was not property, and designs could just be stolen whenever, then people won't spend money taking the risks to release new designs.  It's all about capitalism.  We get nice things because it pays to invent nice things.  Without property and rights, capitalism falls apart.    

The web page for the cylindrical Mac Pro lookalike case says that it is coming soon.  I wonder if they have ever shipped one of these cloned cases.   
What I'd like to see is a Mac Cube chassis lookalike made for a Mac Mini motherboard.  

kevin kee said:

waverboy said:

Why does Apple Maps still not have multiple destination capability?

Not enough demand for such feature. Apple will add features that a lot more people asked for.

That makes sense.  How does one ask? 

Mike Wuerthele said:

tadd said:

"It's also clear that the show won't be shying away from the belief among most historians that Dickinson had a long-running same-sex romantic relationship with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert. "

Most historians?  MOST??      I suggest "some"   or "historians who are interested in Dickinson" or something that qualifies this...    Is that contemporary English speaking historians?    Perhaps even naming the historians would be nice.  

Feel free do do your own research, and publish it on your own website if you're so inclined.

Do not take this response as an invitation to continue this line of discussion on the forums here.

That seemed a Tadd-dismissive