Psystar calls Apple a 'monopoly' in antitrust charges<br>

Computerworld ^ | 29Aug2008 | Gregg Keizer

[astyanax]

Mac clone maker says Apple's hold on Mac OS X lets it gouge consumers.

The Mac clone maker that has countered an Apple Inc. lawsuit with one of its own said that forcing the California computer maker to undo an illegal tie between the Mac OS X operating system and its hardware would force it to drop prices, according to court documents filed Thursday.

Psystar Corp., a Doral, Fla.-based seller of Intel-based computers, also charged that Apple enjoys "monopoly power" from the licensing link it's forged between its hardware and the Mac OS.

In its response to an Apple lawsuit filed July 3 that accused Psystar of copyright and trademark infringement for pre-installing Leopard on systems, Psystar alleged that Apple violated several antitrust laws by trying to block users and others from installing Mac OS X on non-Apple computers.

[astyanax]

I'd take a Mac over a Lenovo any day!
But (at least in the last 10 years) I've built my own, so unfortunately
I don't think I will ever own an Apple.
Or at least I haven't come across one yet...

Plus, I like tinkering. What am I supposed to do w/ something that works?! ;o)

[ReignOfError]

Did you show him Mac Paint?

That won over a whole lot of Mac users early on. You can do that with a computer?

[purpleraine]

MacPaint started my son as a graphic artist. He moved up to PageMaker and has been using every version of Adobe Illustrator since it came out. And some other things I don’t know the names of.

[purpleraine]

You sound like by brother-in-law. He has a new computer every year. He buys the components and assembles them. Always the fastest thing around.

[ReignOfError]

That was my start, too. I was a writer for my high school newspaper, and I had a collection of MacPaint graphics that I suggested to jazz up stories. One thing led to another, and eventually the school decided to spring for a Mac Plus, and I was laying out the whole paper (of which I was also the editor). The rest is history.

Quark replaced Pagemaker and has been mostly replaced by InDesign, I haven’t used Illustrator in a while, and I mostly write for the Web now, but at least part of my media career is traceable right back to MacPaint on a 512K Mac.

[astyanax]

He has a new computer every year.
What's his (current) os of choice?
And I do remember MacPaint in the mid 80's (graphic arts class.)
Very cool manipulating pixels.
I think I had an Atari 800 at home at the time.
Learned binary from creating graphics on it.
That was right before my Commodore64!