Psystar claims to soon give Apple "a taste of their own medicine"

In a post on their "Psystar Community" website titled "A taste of their own medicine," Psystar writes, verbatim:

We are pleased to announce that an agreement with Apple’s counsel was reached earlier this month and we now have the final list of their deponents for our proposed topics with respect to this litigation. For the past week and for the following ten days we will be doing depositions of some of Apple’s highest level people. After numerous depositions of Psystar employees and associates the shoe is finally on the other foot, oh the joy!

Now 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. 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.

Below is the list deponents by date, feel free to post your questions as comments or email them directly to if you feel that the question would be better unleashed via surprise attack. 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) but we are still allowed to use them amongst our legal counsel and in court.

Aug. 07 — John Wright — OS X — Senior Software Manager
Aug. 12 — Kevin Van Vechten — OS X — Software Engineering Manager
Aug. 13 — Phil Schiller — Marketing — Senior VP Worldwide Product Marketing
Aug. 14 — Mike Culbert — Mac Hardware — Senior Director
Aug. 18 — Gary Thomas — TBD
Aug. 19 — Simon Patience — OS X — Head of Core OS
Aug. 21 — Mark Donnelly — Apple — VP Finance and Worldwide Business management
Aug. 21 — Greg Christie — TBD
Aug. 21 — Mansfield — Mac Hardware — Senior VP Mac Hardware Engineering

Each of these men are the most knowledgeable people in their respective fields.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Note: In mid-March, we ran an online poll that asked "Who's really behind Psystar?" The results were:

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One of the more interesting responses for "Other answer" was: "Three high school kids with a stolen keg."

Yikes! That’s shocking... I had no idea....

A pastor I know just got a new iMac from one of the members of the church. He asked the pastor to go along with him and help him look around for computers. The pastor thought he was helping him choose a computer for that member. So, he went along and gave his opinion. The pastor has always been a confirmed PC user for years and years.

So, they both went out and looked around at three or four places, looking at some PCs and then the last stop was the Apple Store at Woodland Hills Mall (in Tulsa, Oklahoma). And so, the member asked the pastor what he thought about this particular iMac (a desktop model with a slim flat screen [the computer is entirely behind the screen... :-) ...]). And he asked the pastor about how much hard drive space he thought was okay, and then he went and “up-sized” it... :-).

The Apple Store employee brought the box out and handed it to the church member, and then he handed it over to the pastor and said, “It’s yours!”

And the pastor had no idea until that moment...

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The iMac...
http://www.apple.com/imac/

Support is great at an Apple Store. You can bring in your computer and get the “Mac genius” to help you with it (either hardware or software issues). If the hardware has to be fixed, he (or she) will help you get that fixed. If it’s software that needs to be reloaded or adjusted or whatever, he will also help you with that. And it’s all for free.

They’ve also got phone support and then, there is the support from fellow Mac users, too, on the forum that Apple provides for all Macintosh (and other product) users to talk and help each other.

It’s a great “community” actually...

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