[tubebender]

Was this analyst hired by Apple, the court or whom? This may be true but it doesn’t pass my smell test unless this whole thing was set up by a law firm hoping to strike gold?

[dayglored]

> Was this analyst hired by Apple, the court or whom? This may be true but it doesn’t pass my smell test unless this whole thing was set up by a law firm hoping to strike gold?

That should be easy, right? Ask Psystar to show their paid invoice log. From 768 to "millions" there are about 3 orders of magnitude. It should be easy to determine who's lying.

My guess: Psystar.

Their shadow investors are probably getting worried just about now...

[Swordmaker]

Was this analyst hired by Apple, the court or whom? This may be true but it doesn’t pass my smell test unless this whole thing was set up by a law firm hoping to strike gold?

This was an expert forensic accountant hired by Apple's legal team to try and asses the degree of infringement Psystar had committed by examining the papers and discovery documents and testimony provided by Psystar. It was necessary to engage such an expert because Psystar's records were in such disarray—either deliberately, having been destroyed (the judge fined them $5,000 for doing just that), or just through incompetence, having never been properly been kept in the first place—that it was necessary to have such an expert attempt to reconstruct the data. He was to testify before the Federal court as an expert witness on what he found. As best as could be discovered, 768 computers were sold and they also shipped 279 "recovery disks" with OS X components on them.