So how is this different from ‘jailbreaking’ an Iphone?
Aren’t we talking about the same basic principles here? Honest question as this seems kinda strange. Dunno, perhaps I’m way off.
Jailbreaking lets you run non-Apple approved software on Apple hardware.
Psystar was running Apple OS software on its own hardware.
I can think of lots of reasons for Apple to take a hard line on this:
Apple wants to control the quality of both hardware and software to protect its image. That image is in contrast to Windows which has a reputation for being a buggy virus magnet, and bloated in memory use. Having non-Apple software crash on Apple hardware looks bad but having OS X crash looks even worse. Having OS X run FASTER on cheaper non-Apple hardware also makes Apple look bad. They don’t want to be relegated to software only like Microsoft and susceptible to the vagaries of hardware makers.