Not Apple, but an innocent appearing major Corp as a Tech representative, and I'll leave them nameless as the legal; political and monetary power they yield is akin of the mob. If your with them OK, if not you better resign and pray for mercy.
I dunno if Apple is as tough nuts as my experience has been, but it's a fine fine line that I never dreamed to have crossed and I don't think any of us have the deep pockets it takes to pull out of a Federal patent infringement legal action. Think of the legal crap the music industry pulled on casual, for personal only people. Granted there are some bootleggers who need to go down, but there some wild cases of copying by 11 year old kids that are ridiculous. Keep Apple in our court and seek the shelter and expertise only mom Apple can offer. I still want at least 2. I know we wouldn't have to build that many units, and there are people who could easily build the boards. I have a son who just out of high school years ago worked for a poultry company that modified Dell computers and mother boards by the dozen/week to control custom hen houses. I'm sure they had an exclusive agreement with Dell and that much of the Mother board upgrade was triple function redundancy and stand alone lightning protection with a created neutral and grounding functions, plus extra baked epoxy weather coatings. Not cheap but completely necessary for the quality of the controls needed to make the hen house rock and roll. I think a dream list of upgrades to work with whatever soft ware would be the first good steps. Jim M. > Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:34:43 -0800 > Subject: Re: Pismo motherboard updat > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > So, the best way to go about it would be to be a hobbyist, basically. > So long as it was a small operation repairing a small group of > computers, Apple probably wouldn't feel threatened. The moment they > felt the Pismo was threatening the MacBook Pro (that would be quite a > moment!), they'd crack down on it. > I'm still wondering where the heck we could find somebody that would > know what to do and how to do it, but I'm convinced the idea is sound. > What do you mean "from my experience", by the way. Have you worked > with Apple before on something like this before? > > On Dec 9, 3:35 am, Jim Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > From my experience it's not what but how you seek the blessing of Mother > > Co. If they feel any threat to main core new computer business I believe > > they'll be sending out the lawyers from hell. If the board building is > > approached as a positive hobbiest type repair piece business for a core > > special interest group, Apple might even give us some engineering/theory > > help right from the start and that would really be fun for everyone. I > > wonder what profit point they'd get angry or seek a cut of the income. I > > still want at least 2. Jim M. > > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:00:47 -0800 > > > Subject: Re: Pismo motherboard update > > > From: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > By "sit still", do you mean they would take legal action against it, > > > or do you think they themselves would do something like it? > > > > > On Dec 8, 3:22 pm, Jim Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'd love a couple of upgraded units, but I don't think apple is going > > > > to sit still as it becomes way too viable an option, and I wouldn't > > > > care about that either if you can find the brave anonyms > > > > techs/engineers to build them, price and quality though too. Jim M. > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:25:25 -0800 > > > > > Subject: Re: Pismo motherboard update > > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > I would DEFINITELY be interested in that! > > > > > > > On Dec 5, 7:12 pm, Austin Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > After checking outwww.openpandora.org(whereanew, open-source > > > > > > handheld is in the works, just about to go into mass production), I > > > > > > was struck with an idea: > > > > > > With the right people and a pre-order plan, wouldn't it be > > > > > > possible > > > > > > to front the costs of building a new motherboard to fit the Pismo? > > > > > > The > > > > > > motherboard would be entirely funded by private investments and pre- > > > > > > orders. The OpenPandora apparently has enough finances to pass > > > > > > through > > > > > > FCC testing… couldn't a new motherboard do the same? > > > > > > Of course, just for Pismos wouldn't be enough. Clamshells, > > > > > > Wallstreets, etc, would benefit from the same plan (can you > > > > > > imagine—an > > > > > > Intel Core 2 Duo Clamshell with high res, 256 MB of VRAM and DVD > > > > > > +RW?). > > > > > > The question is, would anyone want to do this? 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