原创 Apple sues power adapter knockoff maker

Apple sues power adapter knockoff maker
Hot on the heels of its win against Mac clone-maker Psystar, Apple is suing another company that's making knockoffs of its products, but this time its power adapters. UGG Boots Sale Apple filed the lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings in the California Central District Court on Monday, according to InformationWeek. Apple claims the power adapters violate a patent the company holds on the design of its own adapters.

The power adapters in question come with Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro line of notebooks. Apple also sells the adapters separately for $79 from its online and retail stores. cheap wow goldWhile several of Media Solutions Holdings Web sites, including Laptopsforless.com, Laptopacadapter.com, and Ereplacements.com, have Apple replacement parts in stock, none currently has the power adapter in question when CNET checked on Friday.

Media Solutions Holdings sells replacement parts for many of today's popular brands of computers like Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, Acer and HP, among others. I would never buy a cheap Apple accessory rip off! This company needs to go find another company to leach off of. Patents are filed for a reason. And no company should assume that they have a right to replicate any product just because it seemed like a good idea at that time.

And consumers do have a choice. Go buy a PC if you can't afford the quality products from Apple. If you want a better price than what is available for retail at Mac stores, then go to eBay. I'm glad that cheapskates are purposefully left out of the Apple realm. Innovation, hardly. How Apple managed to patent something pioneered by the home deep-fryer industry is beyond me, perhaps they bought the patent. $79 for a power adapter is crazy overpriced IMO, especially for the piece of junk they're selling.ed hardy clothing My wife's Macbook that has never left the house (between couch and desk) already had the cord break away from the connector after < 2 years. When I went to the Apple store expecting to pay $35/$40 tops and the guy nervously told me it was $79 we left and I patched up the cord myself.

To be correct, there are no Apple-certified repair centers that do the work. There is no such thing as 'Apple-certified'. A service center takes in an Apple product for service and then takes the machine to an Apple store/service center for repair. ugg discountApple will not permit anyone to open the case on the Apple products except Apple itself or you void the warranty.

And yes, this it the way it is for many OEM's, however most OEM's offer certification and authorized service partners that can do warranty service. For example, if you bring me a laptop to repair, I can do warranty work for Dell, Toshiba, HP, Lenovo, Sony, and Acer. However if you bring me an Apple product, all I can do is send it to a regional Apple center for repair- AND charge you for the shipping because Apple is going to charge me for it. On those other names I mentioned, I can get parts in stock locally for immediate repair or at worse, next day. With the Apple product, you're looking at a 1-2 week turnaound time.

Or I can simply buy Apple Care for a nominal amount of money (relative to the price of the hardware I'm purchasing) and get any repair done quickly without any additional out of pocket expenses. Christian LouboutinI work for an apple software development house (3rd party software development) where we have 30+ MacBook Pros. This summer we had two MB Pros go down for separate reasons. One had a fried mother board, the other was having battery life issues.

So I called Apple Care with an American service rep on the other end of the line. I gave them all the necessary info. The following business day, there were two FedEx shipping boxes on my desk. I packed 'em up and called FedEx for a pickup. They were shipped out the same day back to Apple on a Monday. Apple received them on a Tuesday.ed hardyThen they were repaired, shipped back (via FedEx) and back on my desk by 9am Wed. morning. Apple paid for all FedEx shipping and repairs in lightning speed. Now that is service and we have not had another issue with either computer since.Naturally, we get Apple care on all of our machines. Their service can't be beat and anyone who opts not to get AppleCare with their new machines are idiots!

If Apple patented the cord wrap feature, then fine (although I have seen that feature on a lot of products from portable stereo systems to vacuum cleaners). It's not hard for this company to alter the way the cord wraps around the supply.

Frankly I don't see how any company can patent a power supply any more. These designs have been around for ages now, and there are so many of them out there I find it hard to believe anyone with a half brain could allow a patent on one in the first place. A copyright so your complete circuit is not copied would make sense, but to patent it? We all know most of the people who work at the US patent offices are on drugs (or something).

Any basic electronics textbook will have a few designs of switching power supplies. It's basic electronics. I see power supplies every day that look almost identical aside from the arrangement of the parts on the circuit boards. I find it hard to believe Apple's design is so different that they will be successful with this lawsuit. As I mentioned earlier, if they are then the court doesn't have a clue what they are doing.