Apple gets relief: Psystar antitrust claim dismissed

Apple gets relief: Psystar antitrust claim dismissed

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of California has rejected the lawsuit filed by Psystar.

Psystar filed the lawsuit against Apple claiming that the Mac maker uses anticompetitive practices to prevent companies from selling computers which can run Mac OS X.

Apple restricts Mac OS X to their own manufactured hardware.

Psystar has been selling personal computers which could run this operating system out of the box.

Apple had filed a lawsuit against Psystar claiming this practice was illegal.

Psystar now has just around 20 days to amend its complaint to get the judge to reconsider it.

Judge Alsup said in his ruling: “The pleadings…fail to allege facts plausibly supporting the counterintuitive claim that Apple’s operating system is so unique that it suffers no actual or potential competitors.”