PsyStar: the soufflé has collapsed |
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The Mac topic of the week was PsyStar and its clones of Mac. Several sites launched investigations of this company that appeared to have sprung up overnight.
The registered office seemed to be on the move, changing place regularly corresponding either to a house in residential zone, or at an industrial park where nobody had ever heard of them.
Also interesting is the vote of confidence by the site used for their online transactions, PowerPay. After checks by Powerpay, PsyStar was classified as suspect and the account suspended. The sudden rise of this company and the difficulty of identifying it physically makes one suspect, a posteriori, an enormous swindles.
This business seems now almost at an end, however PsyStar has given birth to any immense polemical which divided the Web and our forums on the possibility of buying a clone of Mac. Up to now, the Hackintosh existed; those which had cracked the Apple code profited from a leniency of Apple since the media took little interest in their work (contrary to the hackers of iPhone). Now they have been put under the lime light, it is likely to encourage Apple to react more strongly to these hacks in order to stop another PC assembler launching out on this potentially remunerative route.
[translation by crispin]
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