Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
The Apple 99% Rule
I’ve come up with a new model for explaining how Apple works regarding new product releases: it’s called the Apple 99% Rule. Basically it means that Apple will give you 99% of what you want, but make some bonedheaded decision about the remaining 1%. For a lot of companies, the 1% is incentive to get [...]
PearC is Europe’s Psystar
PearC, a German company, has released its own brand of Psystar-style Mac clones. Their setup is pretty similar to Psystars; they offer 3 classes of build-to-order Hackintoshes. It will be interesting to see how Apple’s legal team fares across the pond!
via Gizmodo
Was Macworld a Bust?
Or was it a carefully-planned political move by Apple? Apple has a long history of unveiling new and exciting toys at Macworld, but with their recenty popularity, these events have risen to insane levels of over-the-top expectations. And as we all know, anything that goes up must come down. I think that Apple is trying [...]
EFI-X Legal Discussion
Macintouch has a good review of the EFI-X chip on an EFI-X USA-supplied computer. At the end of the article, they have an excellent legal discussion covering the following points:
Is the EULA binding?
Product Tying
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
How do these issues affect the EFI-X USB Boot Module?
Personally, I don’t want to see OS X released for [...]
Apple Drobo
9to5 Mac is reporting that Apple is developing a Home Server with the following features:
MobileMe coupled with Dynamic DNS (Internet-accessible)
AFP file sharing for backups and file storage
iTunes sync (including sharing with iPod, iPhone, and AppleTV)
ARM-based hardware (not Leopard Server)
Plug in modem directly
Power saving features
RAID 5 option with multiple hard drives
I would buy this in a [...]
Did Apple fail to copyright OS X?
Psystar seems to think so:
Mac clone manufacturer Psystar said that Apple’s copyright suit against it should be dismissed because Apple has never filed for copyright protection for its Mac OS X operating system with the U.S. Copyright Office, according to court papers.
Apple “is prohibited from bringing action against Psystar for the alleged infringement of one [...]
Psystar says EULA is dumb
Although Apple is already suing Psystar, the game isn’t over yet - Psystar has amended their countersuit to say that Apple is guilty of copyright misuse regarding the Leopard EULA and DMCA. Basically Psystar wants to keep making money (illegally) and even though this is a weak approach, it’s all they can really do at [...]
Psystar: The Saga Continues
Apple thinks there’s a man behind the curtain at Psystar:
The soap opera of would-be Mac cloner Psystar was already full of shady twists and turns, but there’s a possibility Apple’s legal team thinks there’s some truth to a few of the wilder conspiracy theories out there — a paragraph tacked on to an amended version [...]