RSSPsystar wants to get your Apple questions answered
By Tim Conneally | Published August 14, 2009, 5:13 PM
You know why there are so many Apple rumors? Because they don't talk to the media. So when someone is guaranteed to have an audience with Apple where the company is legally bound to answer the questions, it's a golden opportunity to learn about the tight-lipped company's strange and wondrous ways.
Stouthearted Mac clone maker Psystar announced that it will have its turn to depose Apple in its litigation over the company's unauthorized use of OS X on its PCs.
The company wrote on its blog yesterday, "After numerous depositions of Psystar employees and associates the shoe is finally on the other foot, oh the joy!
"...Given that there is a significant interest in this litigation aside from the business interest of Psystar, in particularly those of the OSX86 community and others; we want all your input," the blog continued. "On that note, we're taking the top ten most highly moderated questions for each person to be asked at their depositions. Please bear in mind that these must relate to the litigation at hand and if you feel this correlation is unclear, please elaborate to help us better understand your perspective and/or argument."
Psystar says it will be questioning executives Bob Mansfield, Phil Schiller, and Mark Donnelly; as well as OS X project leaders John Wright, Simon Patience, and Kevin Van Vechten; and other Apple leaders such as Mac Hardware director Mike Culbert, and engineers Gary Thomas and Greg Christie.
"Feel free to post your questions as comments or e-mail them directly to press@psystar.com if you feel that the question would be better unleashed via surprise attack," the company continues. "Bear in mind that we might not be able to release the answers to said questions until the conclusion of this litigation (re: Apple's Super Secret Protective Order)."
Look I have built several hackintosh's with osx/xp/windows7/puppy linux & I love all the operating system's. But yes I still purchase macs anyway because I have been buying macs or should I say my father bought me my first apple II when I was little & I have been buying them myself I even just built a hackintosh & I bought a new Imac for my kitchen & 2 mac mini's 1 for my car & one for my bathroom media center. I love mac's but I want to be able to purchase there O.S & then install it on anything & I for one do not think it will mess with there sells because apple is a company that maks a great sleek computer that I cannot make, so I will continue to buy there computers for how they look & how they make not much noise, but my hackitosh's are faster then apple computers & my hackintosh's that I built for myself can also be upgraded at anytime, plus they are really fast because I use intel qaudcore plus 4GB Mem & 4 TB drives & a pioneer superdrive & also 4 operating systems that I can run on any kid of drive, even a flash drive, man the options are endless. I just wish apple grows a brain & let us start to purchase it from them legally & atleast they will get money for there wonderful unix based O.S & do not get me wrong I buy there OSX now I just patch the orginal in the beginnings of the install, but I still buy it. But there is a lot of people that would buy there O.S just if they let them install it on anything. I will keep doing it & I still purchase macs. God gave me freedom & I will have freedom even if apple does not like it.
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|Good luck Psystar!
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|Speaking of Apple ... I just wonder, why didn't they just pay Beatles' Apple Records in the first place, or just go for another name. Gah!
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|Psystar is persistent....I'll give them that much. There just can't be a big enough demand for OS X based machines to go to all this trouble though. Especially given that most of the drones out there seem to be content to stick to Windows.
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|"Especially given that most of the drones out there seem to be content to stick to Windows."
I think you'd be amazed how many might try it if they could install it (easily and legally) on their Dell/HP/Lenovo/Homebuilt.
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|I know quite a few that tried (and suceeded) at getting iDeneb OSX running on standard PC hardware (and also quite a few that failed). It was rather humourous to witness it too.
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|Yes, you truly are revolutionary and awesome because you chose a different OS. Let me guess, you're one of the slack-jaws who has a picture of a kid urinating on a Chevy/Ford/Dodge/etc etc etc emblem on their truck window?
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|oh this is going to be a riot :)
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|Yes, especially when we all witness the inevitable demise of Psystar. This knockoff company is spinning it's wheels, it will never get OS X legalized on non Macintosh computers. OS X is the exclusive property of Apple.
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|It doesn't have to get it legalized it just needs to point out that Apple Computers are PCs with Apple restrictions on them - If they can prove this the judgement could go to why Apple purposely locks out PCs when its using the same hardware. Might do nothing but if OSX ever does get released to all pcs you can kiss apple computers goodbye.
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|well not Apple itself, they can be a cell phone company
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|I've yet to see another EFI-based laptop or desktop computer, so how Apple provides the *same* hardware is beyond me. All of these hacks require something to emulate EFI or an EFI module to get around the lack of hardware.
I get the feeling SCO's case will still look more a circus than this one, but this will come close.
It's interesting to see how entitlement rules the world.
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|Here's a whole list of them
http://en.wikipedia.org/...ible_Firmware_Interface
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|It has nothing to do with lack of hardware it has to do with TPM and EFI. You can't hack all regular pcs they need to fit a certain requirement which is the same hardware that Apple uses in their pcs. The closer it is to what Apple uses the easier it is to hack and function properly. The dell mini 9 is a dream to work with osx and functions amazingly well for a netbook. Apple uses the same hardware as everyone else. Its basically an Asus PC.
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|That's one apple I'd be happy to kiss. What a day for consumers that would be!
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|The thing here is that if Apple successfully proves its case, the inverse of the case may also hold true and mean that Microsoft may have standing that prevents Mac's from having Windows. While we all know there is no problem putting almost anything on anything with enough code and cpu cycles the real case here should be ownership. IF Apple were to really push the envelope it would stop selling licenses and produce leased DRM versions that phone'd home. However, I think the underlying Darwin, prevents them from doing that... catch-22 If I was apple I would have just bought the company out instead of suing them, they are trying to make an example out of the company and its not benefiting them yet, maybe... in time though it will... or maybe not.
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|"Microsoft may have standing that prevents Mac's from having Windows."
Why??!?
That's a marketing coup, right there.
Sure, they bought a Mac...but then they put Windows on it. ;)
Small bit of contradiction here:
"hile we all know there is no problem putting almost anything on anything with enough code and cpu cycles"
"IF Apple were to really push the envelope it would stop selling licenses and produce leased DRM versions"
"Darwin, prevents them from doing that"
If hacking can do anything, what use is a (more) DRM'd Mac OS X? If hacking can do anything, why would Darwin stop Apple? Lord knows they've got the "developers, developers, developers!"
*grin*
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