Comments on: “How the Psystar lawsuit might go very, very wrong… for Apple” http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:15:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1857 Ploni Almoni Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:11:24 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1857 <p>Thanks for that comment Jose, it beats the fanboi comments, and anti-Apple comments on the subject that I've seen also, because it has a sense of humor. :-)</p> Thanks for that comment Jose, it beats the fanboi comments, and anti-Apple comments on the subject that I’ve seen also, because it has a sense of humor. :-)

]]> By: jose fernando http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1849 jose fernando Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:08:30 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1849 <p>People, I am not sure if you have forseen the long term consequences of Apple NOT winning. I believe we may all loose. Tongue in cheeck this is what may happen</p> <p>February 2009 AP - APPLE GOES BANANAS - Rudy Pedraza shocking Bill Gates link - MacOSX Discontinued - Steve Jobs changes name to uSe2Have aJob - Global Warming causes Linux Penguin go exinct - VISTA gets out of sight - Psystar announces plans to clone 1,000,000 dollar bills</p> <p>those could be the headlines in a while if apple does not win and obliterates Psystar.</p> <p>Just give a tough to the following sucession of unfortunate events 1) Apples sues Psystar 2) Psystar gets out the hook for a technicality. Judge says he can not rule because Apple is a fruit and the whole suit should be taking care for the food administration authorities 3) psystar and other companies predates apple with cheapo clones. 4) Apple star loosing money on the whole computer category. They are not selling hardware because everyone buys cheapo chinese junk. 5) Apple exits the computer hardware business 6) Apple discontinues MacOSX 7) computer users are left without mac hardware and mac software 8) A whole branch of industry related to the mac gets whacked. some loose their shirt and go out of business. Some switch to vista 9) steve jobs is a waste of a man and suicide himself or get into a monastery in tibet were there is nothing more than abaco 10) Psystar has nothing to steal (clone) anymore and goes out of business as well</p> <p>there is many posible holes on the whole thing. Thing can turn different and that should be like the worst posible scenerio. But I am afraid that if apple does not get its way and keep complete control of their own creations, they may very well just say 'HASTA LA VISTA' and leaves us with NOTHING but MACROSUCKS and Penguins!</p> People, I am not sure if you have forseen the long term consequences of Apple NOT winning. I believe we may all loose. Tongue in cheeck this is what may happen

February 2009 AP – APPLE GOES BANANAS – Rudy Pedraza shocking Bill Gates link – MacOSX Discontinued – Steve Jobs changes name to uSe2Have aJob – Global Warming causes Linux Penguin go exinct – VISTA gets out of sight – Psystar announces plans to clone 1,000,000 dollar bills

those could be the headlines in a while if apple does not win and obliterates Psystar.

Just give a tough to the following sucession of unfortunate events 1) Apples sues Psystar 2) Psystar gets out the hook for a technicality. Judge says he can not rule because Apple is a fruit and the whole suit should be taking care for the food administration authorities 3) psystar and other companies predates apple with cheapo clones. 4) Apple star loosing money on the whole computer category. They are not selling hardware because everyone buys cheapo chinese junk. 5) Apple exits the computer hardware business 6) Apple discontinues MacOSX 7) computer users are left without mac hardware and mac software 8) A whole branch of industry related to the mac gets whacked. some loose their shirt and go out of business. Some switch to vista 9) steve jobs is a waste of a man and suicide himself or get into a monastery in tibet were there is nothing more than abaco 10) Psystar has nothing to steal (clone) anymore and goes out of business as well

there is many posible holes on the whole thing. Thing can turn different and that should be like the worst posible scenerio. But I am afraid that if apple does not get its way and keep complete control of their own creations, they may very well just say ‘HASTA LA VISTA’ and leaves us with NOTHING but MACROSUCKS and Penguins!

]]> By: Head Geek http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1769 Head Geek Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:02:59 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1769 <p>Yes, it's not likely that they'll switch back to a non-x86 platform -- the reasons why they switched <em>to</em> it in the first place are still valid.</p> <p>I don't know what Psystar's putative legal defense might be, but time should clear up that bit of ignorance. :-)</p> Yes, it’s not likely that they’ll switch back to a non-x86 platform — the reasons why they switched to it in the first place are still valid.

I don’t know what Psystar’s putative legal defense might be, but time should clear up that bit of ignorance. :-)

]]> By: PsyStar: Their business a pretext for lawsuit? « Recycleosphere http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 PsyStar: Their business a pretext for lawsuit? « Recycleosphere Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:30:20 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1767 <p>[...] court. Most people, including myself, think it probably will end in a loss for them. However, as a friend’s blog has said, there is a possibility that PsyStar has a good defense up their sleeve. My take on that [...]</p> [...] court. Most people, including myself, think it probably will end in a loss for them. However, as a friend’s blog has said, there is a possibility that PsyStar has a good defense up their sleeve. My take on that [...]

]]> By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1766 Ploni Almoni Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:13:40 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1766 <p>That's 3.06GHz. :-) (Typo)</p> That’s 3.06GHz. :-) (Typo)

]]> By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/07/21/how-the-psystar-lawsuit-might-go-very-very-wrong-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 Ploni Almoni Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:12:36 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=584#comment-1765 <p>Very good article you're linking to. Except the (irrelevent) bit of "returning to a propritary CPU" (PowerPC was not "proprietary", it was off the shelf and made by no less than four different manufacturers; in fact it is still frequently used in the embedded world. Same goes for the 68x00 they used before it, which in fact was the CPU for a multitude of microcomputers in the workstation sphere before becoming the Lisa and the Mac's CPU. The only thing "proprietary" about it was that it wasn't the more common CPU for home computers, and in fact that off-the-shelfness in general what made (legal) Mac clones, with Apple's blessing and licensing, possible before the return of Steve Jobs. (Jobs didn't do anything to make them less off the shelf, under his reign PPC Macs had PCI busses and other PC-like accouterments, before going fully PC architecture with the switch to Intel.)</p> <p>Apple going to a non-Intel CPU is a remote possibility though, Apple did buy a PowerPC CPU maker recently, in a rare hardware maker acquisition. They say they want to use them for embedded (i.e. iPod and iPhone, etc.) applications though, and I believe them. Intel is also doing a lot of sweet deals with Apple, making a special CPU for the Air and a special overclocked CPU for the iMac 3.086GHz system.</p> <p>You're probably wondering what the point of this reply is, I'm writing the pointless statement for <em>your</em> blog. My blog will have the more interesting post on the subject. I'll try to send you a talkback. :-)</p> Very good article you’re linking to. Except the (irrelevent) bit of “returning to a propritary CPU” (PowerPC was not “proprietary”, it was off the shelf and made by no less than four different manufacturers; in fact it is still frequently used in the embedded world. Same goes for the 68×00 they used before it, which in fact was the CPU for a multitude of microcomputers in the workstation sphere before becoming the Lisa and the Mac’s CPU. The only thing “proprietary” about it was that it wasn’t the more common CPU for home computers, and in fact that off-the-shelfness in general what made (legal) Mac clones, with Apple’s blessing and licensing, possible before the return of Steve Jobs. (Jobs didn’t do anything to make them less off the shelf, under his reign PPC Macs had PCI busses and other PC-like accouterments, before going fully PC architecture with the switch to Intel.)

Apple going to a non-Intel CPU is a remote possibility though, Apple did buy a PowerPC CPU maker recently, in a rare hardware maker acquisition. They say they want to use them for embedded (i.e. iPod and iPhone, etc.) applications though, and I believe them. Intel is also doing a lot of sweet deals with Apple, making a special CPU for the Air and a special overclocked CPU for the iMac 3.086GHz system.

You’re probably wondering what the point of this reply is, I’m writing the pointless statement for your blog. My blog will have the more interesting post on the subject. I’ll try to send you a talkback. :-)

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