Apple will lose against the Russians - just look at how ineffective the RIAA has been against the Russian music pirates who "legally" sell music in .mp3 formats for pennies on the dollar compared to legit channels. Russia, like the Chinese, don't give a rip about US copyright/patent/trademark laws. And what can a company do about it?
Not only that the Russian will export their Mac-clones to Western Europe
Apples best solution (if they can do it) is to take their essential updates and weld code into it that makes clone machines only 50% usable. Such as ruins the ethernet or the sound or something more feasible. Apple has not done this so far so maybe it can’t be done or Apple figures the clone makers can issue their own updates that cancel out the sabotage....which would really be embarrassing
XP was hacked
Vista was hacked
0SX was hacked
Apple can be hacked too on any anti-clone countermeasures?