No one’s ever happy to see marketplace battles transported into the courtroom. Still, there’s plenty of backstory here and quite a bit of it’s unflattering for Jonathan Schwartz, the last man to helm the one-time tech powerhouse.
In the eyes of a fanboy, every advertisement begs not so much to be remade but to be made right. Here’s a fine example that starts with Google’s popular Super Bowl XLIV spot and veers straight into a celebration of Mac users’ favorite truisms about Windows and how it must feel to be Windows user.
Gotta a belly full of ire, a volume of vituperation you’ve been holding back? Well, here’s a deserving target that thinks some poorly shaped Aluminum and a few icons are enough to earn him some respect.
After an 11-month engagement, a bright, perky and surprisingly attractive British girl named Hermione has married her MacBook Pro, “Alex.” Although his exact hardware specs aren’t listed, the bride says that he’s a “real machine” while giving a nervous wiggle in her seat. Hmm.
An already interesting weekend just got a little, well, more interesting. There is, of course, no way to confirm anything in this write up, which is presented as hearsay. Still, in view of the simmering competition between Google and Apple, as well as the shooting war with Adobe, this information almost passes a sniff test.
Here’s a laugh. Adobe’s latest salvo, official or otherwise, against Apple has taken the dispute into uncharted waters — they posted a screencap of a hardcore porn website (Bang Brothers of all places) showing videos that purportedly aren’t viewable on the iPad.
From the delusional thinking department comes Adobe’s response — was one required? — to the blessed absence of Flash on Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and, now, just-introduced iPad. And, no, the graphics software maker doesn’t offer a lick of contrition for the security and resource issues their “technology” causes.
What a difference a day and another attorney can make. As expected, the Florida-based company is indeed back — a bit faster than I had thought — and selling selling their hacker’s toolkit for installing Mac OS X on generic PC hardware.
It goes without saying that Steve Wozniak, the hardware genius behind the original Apple computer, will buy anything will an Apple logo on it — dude’s got taste. Still, it’s funny that Woz would add his voice to the growing chorus of people who want a Mac tablet (a.k.a. iPod touch on steroids, iSlate, etc.), too.
More than a year-and-a-half later, not to mention endless sturm und drang, and what does PsyStar have to show for its efforts? The company is likely facing a permanent injunction barring them from their primary business and over $2 million in damages though it made less than 800 computers running Mac OS X.
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