I feel cheap and dirty. I just joined a slashdot flamewar.

The thread started when somebody noted that Apple is going to sue Little Psystar (pronounced: SIS-ter) for violation of the terms of the OS X EULA. You know, cloning when the book says you can’t.

This will probably be a legal test case for whether EULAs are enforceable.

With any luck the legal system will see the difference between putting an operating system on two home computers in the same house and using a company’s proprietary and copyrighted technology to compete with them on price. The difference between that and burglary is semantic.

My guess is Little Psystar will cease to be news in a few weeks. His Steveness could buy Little Psystar with his walking around money and by next week he’d forget that he forgot where he put it. If Little Psystar is smart (they’re not), they’ll fold up their tents and get invisible quickly.

Death by “Ooomba-ooomba.”

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Anyway, some retard in the aforementioned thread opined that Apple’s success is largely due to a “cool facade.” He explains the explosion of Apple sales in the last couple of years as “marketing.”

Yup. Damn that Apple. A few intelligent, witty ads, superior hardware, software, and technical support make up this thin veneer that the stupid public is just gobbling up. Mac people are weak.

Real computer people love cheesy graphics. Real computer people live to enter 32-digit key codes so they can be treated like thieves by the mother ship. Real computer people don’t mind spending a day finding, downloading, installing and tweaking a driver for a stock sound card. We’ll get the wireless and printer drivers tomorrow.

Apple people are lame.

I just love it when the WinLin retards get up on their back legs and start yelping.

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I haven’t mentioned DRM for a while. Now I have.

Everybody except iTunes is getting non-DRM tracks to sell. There are no reports that it is infringing on iTunes being the number one music retailer.

The record companies are clearly using unfair business practices as a punitive measure against Apple.

You may note that I said this on July 15, 2008:

If the iTunes Music Store slips to the number two position in music retailing, while Apple is still being shut out of unprotected music sales, Apple’s lawyers will eradicate the current structure of the recording industry very, very quickly.

They might get to it before then, but it won’t be postponed beyond that.

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Companies are forming clear alliances against Apple. Companies are building hardware and software specifically designed to thwart Apple. It isn’t working. Apple still kicks their asses.

Why?

The term “vertical integration” keeps getting tossed around, as in “Apple’s products are vertically integrated because they build the hardware and the software.”

It’s a cute catchphrase, but it isn’t entirely accurate.

Apple has large-scale hardware and software integration across platforms. The iPhone and iPod can be used with iTunes on Windows. The iPod can run mp3 files downloaded from anywhere. Unprotected AAC files can run on most digital music players. It’s easier to install a Mac running OS X than a Dell running Vista on a Windows server.

But if you use all Apple products it’s even easier; it’s plug and play.

All the other companies are painting things up to look like Apple products and marketing them as equivalent when the functionality isn’t even close. Then they pay shills to let us know that buying Apple means you’ve been taken in by the RDF and clever marketing.

The Reality Distortion Field is a self-serving line of bullshit invented and perpetuated by those who would convince you that Apple is all chrome and no motor (assclowns).

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Beer.