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11-17-2009, 04:24 PM
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Cheetah
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thorazine74
I dont think apple is worried about the scene per se but the commercial use of the hacks, at least for now, even with psystar crushed down apple will have to face other businesses competing with them, specially in other countries where eula are more like wet paper than a deal with the devil and where there is no dmca bshit. Its not that difficult, as long you dont sell os x preinstalled you would be relatively safe...
Of course that could change if more competition arise for them they may decide to lock down os x to apple hardware even more...
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Actually given the EU has its own version of the DMCA called the Copyright Directive the only serious countries left (I expect the German and UK Mac cloners to be soon shut down under the EUDC) would be Russia who according to the BSA is only second to China in percentage (68 percent vs 80 percent) of pirated software-- not markets Apple was expecting anyhow.
If you really look mos tof the people complaining about Apple's prices don't understand that the low end (<US$600 market has such razor thin margins that even some Japanese companies have elected not to go into that market.
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