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RE: Cheap Mac clone ... and litigation agains product bundling

On another vein, it would be nice to have someone shove it up to Apple on anti-monopoly basis (in this case, product-bundling practices) for "forbidding running OS X on non-Apple" computers (that is, bundling their hardware with their software), like IBM used to do in the distant past.

If Psystar (sp?) can take Apple to court and win on those grounds, it would open a whole new market the way IBM clones opened up the PC market.

So, let's not throw away the baby with the bathwater.

If, instead of Apple, the company name were Microsoft, I know quite a few pundits in the media and the government that would be hell-bent on breaking up such "monopoly".

Why, then, should Apple enjoy such immunity?

The iPhone - ATT product-bundling also comes to mind as another legal war against Apple. It would have the support of a lot of customers burned and salted (or insulted?) by Apple's cattle-prodding sales and marketing practices.

It is time for Apple to be painted as the Evil Empire it has really become, and their fanatically loyal customers as a bunch of clueless suckers, which they really are, and take the legal war back against them, just like with Microsoft.

Just don't look at the media to spear-head it, because of the usual $$$ reasons. It would have to be organized consumers or better-funded corporations. Even a lawyer firm would do.

Posted by: lamp299   Posted on: 04/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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