UPDATE: Psystar Finally Gets What's Comin' From Apple
More juiciness in the Apple-Psystar fiasco was revealed today as Apple has asked for every single Psystar Open Computer to be recalled and thrown into the fiery bowels of Hell.
According to Yahoo! News:
Apple asked for actual and statutory damages, any profits Psystar derived from the sale of both the Open Computer and Openserv server, injunctive relief, and the recall of any Open Computers Psystar previously sold.
This is going to sound incredibly ignorant, but how can Apple recall another company's computers? Will they take said computers? Turn them into less-than-Apple-beautiful doorstops? Or does Psystar take the computers back, etc.?
Clearly this will put Psystar out of business, which we all expected would happen sooner rather than later. For a brief moment, a small-time computer company went against one of the biggest dogs of them all, and temporarily won. After months of la-la-la-ignoring, Apple finally struck, and now the era of the Open Mac is over.
It was a wonderful little shred of time we had, wasn't it? Open markets, healthy competition, subpar machines running bootleg OSX ... sigh.
Anybody here actually buy one of those Psystars? Will you now sell that monster on eBay for $800,000?
[Yahoo! News via Gizmodo]
NeonMadman
Posted to In the News on 16 July 2008
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Like Chris Crocker would say: "Leave! Apple! aloneeeeeeee!" Apple's always been the underdog, and they do well at it! They are the few, the proud, the Macmeisters! The Rebels! They change things! As a Mac user, I hope they obliterate Psystar, and every Psystar customer boxes up their pathetic excuse for a Mac clone and suffers the wrath of the Apple war machine.