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So, wouldn’t you know it?  Apple got sued…again.  This time, it’s for allegedly infringing on no less than four patents held by the company Mirror Worlds Technologies with OS X.5’s new archive feature “Time Machine”.  The company claims that their patents describe a “highly visual system that displays a line of documents and other items dating back (or forward) in time along with the option of searching these items to retrieve and edit them.”  The lawsuit comes only weeks after Amazon filed suit against the Apple iTunes store for allegedly infringing on Amazon’s designs for a digital music delivery system that have been around for supposedly “five years.”  Yeah right Amazon.  It seems strange to me that the lawsuit came around the same time that iTunes was discovered to be #2 in ALL music sales worldwide.

Amazon…you want a piece of Apple’s pie?  I’m sure Steve Jobs would love to give you some.  Be warned though.  You could end up with a shiny new hostile take-over, yielding of course a new company called Applezon.  Let Micro-hoo (AKA Yah-soft) be a lesson to you.  These computer nerds don’t play nice.  Remember Bill Gates and the Netscape, IE slaughter?  Wake the beast, and you’ll get eaten alive.

As for you, Mirror Worlds Technologies, lets take a Safari back in time (no pun intended).  This was a peaceful time of OS X.4 (Tiger) and Windows XP.  PC users were content to just be scared of Macs, and Mac users were content to be snide toward PC users.  This was a time when Macs were gaining in popularity, but the buzz behind the looming Windows Vista release had PC users in a flurry.  “Vista’ll be smarter than any Mac” and “My PC will eat your Mac for dinner” were household phrases as the battle between good and evil wore on.  Mac users (in their typical snide-ness) usually offered a solemn “whatever dude” to any PC user who dared to cross them.  The implications of an OS X.5 release on macrumors.com was enough to satisfy any Mac user who might have been slightly troubled at a neanderthal’s…ahem…excuse me…PC user’s operating system slurs.  It was a peaceful time.

Pearl Harbor came…

Leopard hit the streets in October ‘07, and no less than ten bazillion slobbery-mouthed Mac users pushed and shoved each other for a spot in a line just to get their hands on their very own copy.  It took no less than five seconds after release for Leopard to receive astronomically high reviews (due in part to it’s new AMAZING feature called Time Machine), and Microsoft began to feel the heat.  With Apple continuing to cut into their ever-precious market share (more like…border line monopoly), Microsoft hurried to put something…no…ANYTHING entitled “Windows Vista” out on the market, if only to deaden the blow of OS X.5’s successful Leopard release.

D-Day came…

Vista hit the streets, and every PC user without a brain went to pick up their own copy.  It was no re-hash of the Windows 95 release brawl though.  The long lines were sparse and retail dog fights were mere tussles.  The world had caught on.  Leapord was the way to go.  It took no less than three seconds for the press to give Vista poor reviews and offer solutions to the public like “Upgrade to Vista” and “Buy a Mac”.  Reuters reported that Steve Jobs went through a period of about a week when doctor’s could not determine why he continued to wet himself in the middle of earnings meetings.  It still remains a mystery.

How IRONIC, Mirror World Technologies, that you would go after the company that is eating Microsoft’s dinner.  The same goes for you.  You want a piece of their pie?  Wake the beast, and you’ll get eaten alive.

That is until the world wakes up and notices that a Mac can’t run exchange.  But hey who are we kidding?  Nobody cares.