In the world of hardware, the name Apple is usually among the main news. This is the case recently, but it is for reasons that Apple might not like as much as usual. Apple has been synonymous with Mac and anyone who works in a creative industry that requires serious hardware will tell you that there is only the Mac.
Apple has filed lawsuits against a company called Psystar, claiming that a product called OpenComputer is a direct, unadvertised replication of Mac OS X, for which they simply manipulated the open source license code to allow any PC to operate the Mac operating system. Psystar received legal documents earlier this year and have now filed their own opposition to Apple.
Psystar relies on the somewhat tenuous legal ground that Apple breached monopoly regulation by charging Mac software exclusively for its own hardware, as it must prove that it had a negative impact on consumers and competitors. Legal experts believe that Psystar is against the wall, but the complainants insist that they provide a product essentially generic material.
When Psystar launched the OpenComputer, the request on their website crashed and the payment processing service withdrew from the site. They finally found another payment provider and returned online, but reported a drop in sales when their legal papers were notified in July of this year, but they continue to trade.
Another controversy in the world of hardware concerns the revelations by Amazon Germany of the new technology supposedly top secret Microsoft. The tips of Microsoft were, you can say goodbye to the laser and Deutsch Amazon has exposed the new Microsoft Blue Track, a mouse technology that uses a blue LED on the standard optical laser. The five-button mouse was supposed to remain secret until the beginning of September, but it was not supposed to be, because the Explore mini-mouse with Blue Track was squeezed out.
IFA currently operates in Berlin and, although it is mainly consumer gadgets, there is a whole series of generational advances in hardware. As we have seen, the launch of products is supposed to remain top secret, not only to create a mystery around the product being launched, but also, as we see in the recent revelations about Psystar and Apple, to keep a competitive advantage.