Psystar Web store goes down again

Mac clone maker Psystar's Web store went down again on Thursday evening, the second time in as many days that the company has experienced an interruption in service.

"We're sorry but the store is temporarily down," Psystar said in the Store section of its Web site late Thursday. The company has been selling computers preinstalled with Mac OS X Leopard through that store, in violation of Apple's licensing policies for Mac OS X.

Psystar's site went down Wednesday after Powerpay, a payment-processing company, pulled its services from Psystar after the company violated the terms of its agreement with Powerpay, according to a Powerpay representative. It's not clear what caused Thursday's outage.

[kool_skatkat]

Why Apple is Apple

Now, if they get offline so easily, their machines could do the same. Maybe that's why Apple is Apple.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kool_skatkat/

[Belinus]

Apple is not Apple

Apple is Dell

[drichards1953]

Something is fishy

While I fully agree that Psystar may have come up with a new (newer?) business model involving the Mac OS, there is something very suspect about this company. While it is very possible that it is simply growing pains, there are far too many unanswered questions and unusual problems. Maybe it is time for CNET to send an actual person to the supposed offices of Psystar. At the least they would find a young company trying to get its act together, at the worst a giant fraud. +

[Kimsh]

Where are the Open defenders?

Funny, I don't see any of the usual open * zealots bashing Apple here? Guarded suspicion of a company that wants to open up Apple's totally closed business model? I guess everyone is too busy bashing Microsoft, again...

[chuckjuhl]

Plenty of crow to go around

Hmm? looks like you put your foot in your mouth. These guys appear to be a legit, if somewhat inept, startup.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8538

Of course, I recall a little company called PCs Limited back in 1984 that had the audacity to sell IBM clones ? from an off-campus dorm room. Credit card processing? didn?t have it. Physical address? Didn?t have one. You mailed your money to a PO Box and crossed your fingers. Turned out to be just a college drop-out and some slacker friends assembling off-the-shelf parts and taking orders over the phone and by mail ? cash or check only. Delivery often took several weeks. And, of all things, they were charging people for doing what anyone with a copy of Popular Electronics could do ? build a IBM-PC clone.

That company evolved into what is now Dell Computers, the number one PC builder in the US.

And way back in 1977, if you wanted an Apple II, you would have found no Apple corporate address or Apple retail store. Instead you would have found two former high-school social outcasts toiling away in a two-car garage selling their home-brew computers by mail order. You sent your check or money order to a P.O. Box and crossed your fingers. We all know where those two pioneers of high-school Geek-Goth are now. One is still a daydreamer. The other is still trying to get even with everybody that picked on him in high school. But together they built a computer dynasty.

Just goes to show that it doesn?t take a winning personality to find a market and supply it. Or to be successful. Sometimes It just takes a vision and some moxy 