Mac clones — good or bad for Apple?

Filed under: Law, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), International Business Machines (IBM)

so the wall street journal and a few blogs reported that apple inc. (nasdaq: aapl) said tuesday it has filed a suit against psystar corp., a florida-based company that makes and sells computers that run leopard, apple’s macintosh operating system software. the suit was filed july 3.apple seems to think that psystar is infringing its copyrighted computers as psystar’s $600 open computer “violates an apple policy that forbids people from installing apple’s macintosh software on anything other than an apple-labeled device.”but according to appleinsider, “a spokesman for the company, identified at best as robert [argues] that the mac os x purposeless-user sanction pact, which prohibits third-party installations of mac os x on non-apple arms, stands in disregarding of antitrust laws.” rodolfo pedraza, psystar co-fall through said in the past to the list that his company pays for every copy of the software it sells.i understand what apple is so worried about. if anyone remembers the ibm clones of the 80s, they also think back on that very on the double ibm has lost the control role in the hawk for ibm pc compatibles by 1990. it wasn’t the end for international enterprise machines corp. (nyse: ibm) as it derived a considerable income stream from license fees. but macs are not just hardware, they’re software too, and we all know what operating system has dominated those pcs. microsoft corporation (nasdaq: msft) windows has behoove the global leader.so other than the fact that apple has conflicting rules on what can run on its computers, ipods and iphones, including the tough itunes/ipod relationship, seem strenuous to the extremity and surely borderline violating some consumer protection laws, it’s also possible apple may be missing on a great opportunity here. the gazette mentions that no. 2 computer maker dell inc. (nasdaq: dell) is interested in making such apple os capable computers, meaning apple see sales increase ten fold and capitalize on licensing fees as well as software sales.then again, knowing jobs’ austere attention to details, his alpha personality and controlling nature, i’d say that’s likely never to happen.study permalink email this comments

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