Today in Tedium: Imagine my shock recently when I realized that, I—the guy who has covered Apple-specific angles as esoteric as Novell’s attempt to bring MacOS to the PC—have never written a full story about Mac clones. My archive is packed with pieces about Hackintoshes, weird side-tales about coulda-been Apple contenders, even a piece on Apple II clones. But not even one Mac piece about a third-party Mac market. That ends today, as in retrospect, it is a clear parable about brand identity and ...