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To: Swordmaker

Why are there no MaClones?...................


4 posted on 06/20/2018 1:46:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Red Badger
Why are there no MaClones?...................

I saw authorized Mac clones by UMax circa 1997 in Best Buy, when Apple was about to go down the tubes. Umax made some.

10 posted on 06/20/2018 3:00:55 PM PDT by dennisw
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There Orange pc’s but I haven’t seen one of those since the mid 80s. I think they were produced out of Taiwan, but I’m not sure. I saw a few on Guam and a friend of mine told me that he used to see them around Seattle during the same time period.


17 posted on 06/20/2018 5:27:10 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Red Badger
Why are there no MaClones?...................

There once were Mac Clones, in fact there were over 140 different companies world wide making Mac clones. . . and they were killing Apple as a company until Steve jobs came back and killed the clone program. Now Apple does not sell it's OS, ever. It licenses it only for use with an Apple branded Mac computer.

The end user software license prohibits the OS's use on any computer not so branded. Apple will not go after any hobbyist who chooses to install it on a computer they've built themselves for their own use but will go after anyone who builds computers for retail sale that includes macOS. They have sued several such operations in Federal Court for copyright and patent infringement violations and won.

18 posted on 06/20/2018 6:04:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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