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If I were Apple, I'd do the same thing.

There's a lot of low-level stuff in an OS to make things work smoothly. It's impressive how Apple used to go back and optimize things for G3s, while G4s and G5s were the latest models. Each model is practically running its own OS.

So the last thing Apple needs is for their OS to run on hardware that they've never heard of. If something goes wrong because of hardware, it tends to manifest itself as a freezing or crashing machine. Psystar wouldn't be blamed for that, the users would simply think that Apple had made a crash-prone, piece-of-crap OS.

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The users would simply think that Apple had made a crash-prone, piece-of-crap OS.

Turns out that this is not illegal. If you install Linux on a Macbook, people will think Macs and Linux are the same thing. Those people are dumb, and it turns out that I have no legal obligation to not confuse dumb people.

Also, as someone who uses OS X on Genuine Apple Hardware, I think that Apple has made a crash-prone, piece-of-crap OS. (This is largely VLC's fault. But VLC works fine on Linux, so the problem is clearly Apple, right?)

(As an aside, I wish I could post a comment at -4 so that nobody would have to waste their time downmodding it.)

This is largely VLC's fault. But VLC works fine on Linux, so the problem is clearly Apple.

10/10, A+++++, would get trolled again.

When you misquote out of context, it does sound like a troll. When you read my entire sentence in the context of the parent post, however, it is clear that I am trying to parody the "dumb user" that will blame Apple for creating crap when it's not actually Apple's fault.

Oh yeah, but I kind of said something bad about Apple, and The Tribe Must Be Defended. (That part was the troll, for those of you keeping score at home.)

I am trying to parody the "dumb user"

i.e. trolling

That is not what trolling is.

Calling every literary technique other than trolling trolling, however... is trolling. Oh the irony.

If someone doesn't use computers much, and you hand them a laptop with a big Apple logo on it that is using Linux, why shouldn't they assume this is one of those Macs they've heard so much about? They aren't "dumb" for not knowing something.

By your logic, I can throw you into any profession that isn't your day job, and consider you dumb for not knowing something.

Yes, Apple should protect us consumers against these hackers. They obviously know what is best for us.

Maybe Microsoft should partner with the PC manufacturers and do something similar.

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