Psystar in Trouble

[w1retap]

Just as a sidenote, what really gives me a good laugh everytime I read it is the following from the same EULA:

(same subsection, different clause)
F. <legalese here that leads into> THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

Geez, for "the world's best operating system," Apple sure is mighty concerned about it failing, ain't they? And yes, it's in CAPS in the EULA, I didn't do that for effect. I find it ironic that they love advertising it as being so tight, so perfect, so stable and so damned good yet they wouldn't dare have it in use where such characteristics would be welcome. Anyone else find that a bit odd? Ever seen such a statement in an EULA before?

ahahah, I find that quite funny. The nuke plant I work at tried Macs for all their servers and client machines several years back, and it was one of the biggest losses of money the plant has seen. At the time Apple was offering big incentives for their corporate customers and someone at the company headquarters thought it would be a good idea to go with them. hah.. big mistake. There was virtually ZERO support from Apple, and they could never even get anything tied together and running for more than a week. The application integration with our intranet systems was an utter nightmare. They even hired on site Apple "specialists" to come in and try troubleshooting everything. After several months of almost no productivity, they just gave up and took the loss of tens of millions of dollars, then went with PC's and it's been smooth sailing ever since. Keep in mind though, this in no way effected any plant safety systems or tied into any plant equipment. The computer systems are totally separate. The server and client stations are merely for work flow productivity, intranet applications, work planning, etc..

 

[Exavior]

Exactly, look at what they can make on the hardware. You buy a machine, then latter want a larger screen, new keyboard/mouse, more memory,.... All they see is $$$$$. Sure you can buy any brand to go along with your Apple, but you won't. Especially those that don't know any better. Its the same as any other vender. They tell you that you need to buy your parts from them and they jack up the price to double what it needs to be. They can make a killing with the hardware so they don't want to give that up.

As for those that say it isn't ok for them to force you to use their hardware for their OS. This isn't anything new and I don't think anybody as ever tried to take them to court over it. Hopefully this will help us find out if they can or can't force you to use only Apple sold computer to run their OS.

That is one thing that probably helps keep the cost of the OS down. They want to sell you the hardware so they take a cut on the OS. Microsoft of course doesn't sell you hardware for force you to use any single platform, thus they don't get money from what hardware you sell, thus they have to get it all from the sale of the OS. My guess is that if Apple has to start allowing others to sell machines running the Apple OS, or they have to allow it run on any machine, that you will see the cost of the OS go up when you buy a box copy of it. As they will try to make up for what they will lose by a percentage of their customers not using a Apple sold machine to run the software.