psystar lawsuit
Who’s really behind Psystar?
The latest (and most interesting) salvo in the Apple vs. Psystar lawsuit was that Apple wants to identify several “John Does” who were behind the hacking which allows Mac OS X to be installed on generic Intel boxes. Since there’s nothing the internet loves more than a conspiracy (well, maybe one thing) there’s been a lot of speculation about who is the shadowy cadre behind the plan to break Apple’s hold on their own operating system.
John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) gives a rundown of the thinking behind that, then offers a counter theory: there’s nobody “bigger” behind Psystar at all…
Judge dismisses Psystar’s counterclaim
As Apple and Psystar continue to duke it out over the sales of non-Apple computers running Mac OS X, Psystar recently filled a counterclaim saying that Apple was violating anti-trust laws in its exclusivity regarding which computers can run their operating systems. A California judge has dismissed the counterclaim. Psystar’s counterclaim stated that Apple’s exclusivity more »
Psystar seems to think Blu-ray is more than just a “bag of hurt”
We all know Apple (or should I say, Steve Jobs) doesn’t like Blu-ray, as shown in the most recent refresh of their MacBook and MacBook Pro line, but that doesn’t mean their clone, Psystar, can’t like the hi-def goodness. And they are doing a fine job of showing that fact. On Tuesday, October 28th, Psystar, who is still in on ongoing lawsuit with Apple, announced that their Mac OS X PCs will now ship with a Blu-ray drive as well as NVIDIA 9800GT graphics cards. Does this mean anything to Apple, who has yet to include (or not include) Blu-ray drives into their machines? Probably not.
The question now remains; who is making the smarter choice here?
Psystar “definitely still shipping” its Mac clones.
On Wednesday, Psystar, the company now famous for cheap Mac clones, posted a note to its website stating that even during its ongoing lawsuit from Apple, it will still be shipping Open Computers.
Details after the break.
Psystar will fight Apple’s lawsuit
A couple weeks ago I reported that Apple was finally suing Psystar, the small Florida-based computer company that had been selling Mac-clone “Open Computers,” a practice Apple says is in direct violation of the Mac OS X software license agreement. Psystar responded by saying that Apple was actually making money out of the deal because more »
