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Just a second, I have to check my PayPal balance.

Do I hear fifty cents? Going once . . .

2 cents worth??? NO!

Why is it that the word SCAM flashes on my mind?

Aug 25, 08 - 12:18 pm Comment from: cptnkirk

What trade secrets? How to fail in three weeks? LOL!

Aug 25, 08 - 12:20 pm Comment from: StarkReality

Apple guards their religion more zealously than either the Catholic Church or Scientology.

And the zealots cheer with glee when a business fails.

Fascinating.

What smart asses - selling the company for 50'000. But how much you have to pay for the lawyers to settle the case with Apple.

Plus you pay 50'000 to close down the company.....

That's a pretty smart move – sell the company for $50,000, which transfers the liability to the new buyer. Quite the business model.

"Fascinating."

Yes, Mr. Spock, people cheer when thieves and scammers fail. Apple rightfully protects its IP from theft. Leave your door unlocked tonight. We want to browse while you're asleep.

And a potential liability of $2,000,000...

Aug 25, 08 - 12:49 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

@Stark

No. Zealots don't read and are always the last to know. The cheering you hear is from those who's convictions have been met when two clods in clippity-clop shoes carelessly cloned computers from a co-opted closet in mom's cottage.

" . . . from a co-opted closet in mom's cottage."


In Tokelau. (http://www.iopentech.tk/)
Good luck getting technical assistance.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tl.html

"For Questions or images about Open Tech's Computers contact our PR offices.

PR Contact:
Elijah Samaroo
President of Online Retail and PR"

Offices or bamboo hut?

Aug 25, 08 - 01:08 pm Comment from: StarkReality

I for one am disappointed. Yes the company looks like a front, run by charlatans, however this doesn't make me happy. What I observe here, on MDN, is that people are not pleased that a cheat has been "outted" but something more like a blasphemer has been stoned to death.

Wouldn't you logically want to see many reputable hardware makers in the business? I would love to be able to run OS X on VAIOs, and UMPCs and other machines. Apple would have to exercise a great deal of control in order to maintain the ease of use and reliability, but at least it would allow hardware vendors to build the best possible box within Apple's guidelines.

I guess this is kinda like asking Catholics if there shouldn't be other denominations. It is foolish of me.

Let me get in line before I'm stoned to death. How exactly do you genuflect in this church, draw the shape of an Apple over your chest? Or are we supposed face Cupertino, kneel on a prayer rug, and repeatedly bow and pray every day? Or perhaps I just go to the altar and smooch the derriere of the naked Steve Jobs statue, and thank the great one that another heretic has been obliterated.

@ StarkReality "I for one am disappointed."

And yet, AMAZINGLY, no one but you cares. Egomaniacal freak.

but I'll bet you could trot out more well-worn cliches and even be a tad bit more annoying if you really tried.

Here's a word you need to learn:

"belabor"

verb [ trans. ]
1 argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail : critics thought they belabored the obvious.

Re: StarkReality

Dont' feed the troll. Regardless if his guise is a seemingly honest (yet disillusioned) Apple enthusiast, a troll is still a troll.

So, you grew up in a Catholic family and now you can't stand 'religion', so to goad Mac fans you are here repeatedly attempting to tie this piece of non-news to Catholic 'intolerance' or whatever it is your pet peeve is.

Not only this, but you are completely oblivious of the fact that Apple is primarily a HARDWARE COMPANY. Apple develops kick-but software in order to drive sales of its hardware - from which it derives the vast majority of its income.

Apple will almost certainly never allow cloners for the simple fact that their 'vertical' system works. Apple is beating the pants off every other company for reliability and service.
Yes I paid top dollar for my computer, in the same way that I'd pay top dollar for a good car.

Finally, Mac cloners hurt Apple when they flout plain simple (legally binding) licensing. This by extension hurts Apple fans by taking money that Apple would have been spent on R&D;and forcing them to fight legal battles to protect its licensed property.

Now take your lame, infantile Catholic rhetoric and troll somewhere else.

Please stop feeding the trolls. Thank you.

Aug 25, 08 - 02:12 pm Comment from: shen

"Wouldn't you logically want to see many reputable hardware makers in the business? I would love to be able to run OS X on VAIOs, and UMPCs and other machines. "

yes, i would love to see Apple go belly up and advancement on OS X die with them, because i like OS X soooooo much!

"logically"

you keep using that word. i don't think it means what you think it means.

Hi StarkReality,

now that the WinCrap users stay with the back at the wall they start whining. Years ago OSX has been on Intel and open to all hardware..., yes its true. But nobody took the chance at those days!!
OK the OS was not called OSX, those days it was called NEXTstep.

Everybody likes to jump on now after APPLE made it a winner.

If you like to participate of APPLE's success, you better buy some APPLE shares and a beautiful iMac, MacBook Pro or MacPro.

And please stop whining, you are such a pity. Come aboard you all are welcome to experience the joy.

"Wouldn't you logically want to see many reputable hardware makers in the business? I would love to be able to run OS X on VAIOs, and UMPCs and other machines. Apple would have to exercise a great deal of control in order to maintain the ease of use and reliability, but at least it would allow hardware vendors to build the best possible box within Apple's guidelines."

There are many 'reputable' hardware makers in the business. Why should Apple make a special effort for them when they don't need to?

Why don't you spend more time attacking the OS vendors who currently sell their OS to hardware vendors, for making such a pile of shit, instead of attacking Apple for not selling it? And if the hardware vendors make such a hash of supporting the OSs they currently support, why should it be any different with apple? How would allowing them to sell their hardware with Mac Os on it make them any less inept?

If apple want to sell their Os with their own hardware and not anywhere else, WTF does that have to do with you? Apple is a corporation, not a public service. So long as they are not destroying something that is actually beneficial to you (e.g Microsoft's efforts to make our computers unusable for anything useful in their past efforts with TCPM and trying to kill open standards) you have no cause for complaint, only the ability to choose whether or not to but stuff from them.

The fact that the competition doesn't have anything as good is what you should be concentrating on, it's their fault they are crap, not apple's.

Aug 25, 08 - 03:10 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

@StarkReality
Apple sells HARDWARE and writes software to sell HARDWARE. OS X exists as part of a business that joins HARDWARE with software to provide a complete solution. Just because it is feasible to run OS X on none Apple hardware does not mean it's in Apple's best interest to openly support this. Sure if a hacker want's to build his own Frankenmac, I don't think Apple should attempt to stop them, but selling clones has been tried before by Apple, it didn't work, in fact it almost killed Apple, so no, it's not a "religious" thing that Mac enthusiasts share against this. The truth is much simpler, it's been tied and it didn't work, why would it work now. Apple makes it's money selling Hardware, if Apple does not make a computer that you like, then buy something you do like and run Windows or build your Hackintosh but why do you expect Apple to shoot it self on the foot so that you get choice? What good would it do Apple if it drives the majority of it's income from hardware to license the OS like Microsoft. Apple and Microsoft are deferent business models, don't try to mixed them up.

the loyal customer base is worth at least 5 mil. This is a steal and I thank we should all pitch in and buy the company.

Once in a life deals don't happen every day

If it's worth 5 millions, why they are selling it for 50k? Are they stupid?
No, they rather try to get the most out of it. If you are good in bargaining, you should jump in, you maybe get it for half the the price,... plus some other surprises too.

Are these the same guys that wrote the "I am rich" app for the iPhone?

Aug 25, 08 - 06:00 pm Comment from: Greg L

…including branding, trade secrets and website and liabilities (including lawsuits). Unless someone goes “full retard,” who the hell would pay $50,000 for these bone-cones?

"trade secrets"

His PayPal password.

Gee, what is that in MS points. Maybe Zune Thang would like to squirt that dough away.

Aug 26, 08 - 06:23 am Comment from: Andy

@Road Warrior (NLI)

Very funny, although I think MS are already seasoned masters in the art of ripping people off.

Day by day, it's more apparent that MS honed its techniques from the book '1984'. I mean, it has its Two Minutes Hate (Apple bashing), Big Brother (images of Ballmer or Gates on your XP box and all that contrived DRM) and almost complete domination of the market.

What we see today, however, is the fall of MS. If MS is the Roman Empire circa 400AD, then Apple is Attila the Hun at the gates...

the loony above said, "...at least it would allow hardware vendors to build the best possible box within Apple's guidelines."

Yeah, why not browbeat BMW into letting the Commie Chinese build really cheap M3s over there. Under BMW's guidance, of course. Because I want a cheap M3 and I don't think it's fair BMW gets all that money for one...

That's a pretty smart move – sell the company for $50,000, which transfers the liability to the new buyer"

Which is a smart move. Apple can buy it. It's the cheapest offer they'll ever get to get cloner off the market with their lawyers billing $500/hr. If you think 100hrs of lawyer time buys you much in the way of litigation, think again.