Better product crushed under mighty legal juggernaut. Channeling MS much Apple?
To be fair, given the money and placings they are worse than MS ever were.
The long and sordid Psystar saga creaked to its anti-climactic close on Monday: the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the hackintosher's request to review an appeals court's September 2011 decision not to overturn a December 2009 permanent injunction preventing the Florida company from selling Mac OS X–based clones. "We are …
... Apple do not. And, if Tim Cook plays his cards right, they never will either.
The Standard Model for corporate CEOs is to aim for a monopoly. Apple's model is different: they target a small, but very lucrative subset of the total market, instead of trying to please everybody and spamming the market with "product".
Android has a greater market share than iOS.
Windows has a greater market share than OS X.
Apple therefore cannot be accused of having a monopoly in the home computer market, or the mobile phone market, as other ecosystems are much more widespread. That Apple's rivals also have substantially lower profit margins is utterly irrelevant when determining if a corporation is a monopoly: only market share matters.
Not quite...they had a brief flirtation with clone makers in the late 90s...I remember running a Quadra-clone around 97-98. Then, when Steve Jobs returned, one of his first actions was to stop licensing Mac OS to the clone makers. Whatever you think of Jobs, one thing you have to give him credit for is sorting out the *unholy* OS mess that Apple had got themselves into around that time. Every six months there was a new initiative. Pink. Taligent. Your Mom's Operating System. It was brutal.
Anyway the saddest thing about this Psystar case is why Psystar's management persisted so long. Even with a slick-willy lawyer egging you on, you must know when to fold up and go home, surely? Your job as CEO is to do the best by your company, your investors...and continue to be in business. Seems to have failed on all counts.