"Selah" <selah@psalms.org> wrote in message news:selah-4F709B.10482828072008@news.sunsite.dk... > Time to take a stand, if possible. > > Until Apple allows 3rd party hardware design, manufacturing, assembly, > marketing, distribution and sales back into the Mac equation - no more > purchases of Apple hardware, software or Apple care plans. Just using > the available channels to replace or repair as necessary. > > The goal - to be able to buy reasonably priced hardware that will run > Apple software. This will require that Apple turn from its stance of > being oriented to the elitist consumer - one who is willing and able to > pay the higher costs of owning and operating newer Mac computers and > their software. Specifically, the higher cost is in the software and > hardware provided by Apple, as some other developers and manufacturers > offer reasonably priced products. > > The question will soon be answered if Apple is content to be a small > market share company where its products - especially software, computers > and high-end, high-cost products like the iPhone are concerned - are > focused toward a consumer who will pay a premium for the prestige of > owning an Apple product. If they are truly interested in reaching a > wider customer base, the flowering of companies like Psystar is a new > beginning in the history of Apple.
Apple ought to license Psystar instead of suing them. Cross-licensing is what built the PC industry.
