I honestly do think Apple are perhaps the worst big company around in regards to consumer rights etc. They have basically made a huge market out of selling 'cool' tech products to people who know nothing about tech. Microsoft often gets a lot of flack but I think in around 10 years when Apple will be under investigation for a million different things people will look back and wonder how they ever liked them.
From things such as initially how you couldn't use songs downloaded from itunes on other MP3 players, which utterly destroyed the market.
To the fact that the files on your ipod are stored in a way so as to make it as difficult as possible to move them around (seriously ever try and move your songs back onto your computer so you can load them onto a MP3 player? I did and it took me an entire day to sort the files.).
The shameless abuse of indie companies. Allow an illegal copy of a game to the store costing the developer large amounts of money. The compensation? F*** the developer it's their fault. No compensation.
Oh hey you wanted flash on apple products? Well tough Steve jobs didn't like flash so they can go to hell.
You want your app on the store? Yea well only if we decide it is worthy. Illegal and fake copies of pokemon? Yea that's good.
Richard Stallman commented that Jobs pioneered a computer as a jail. He was totally right. Apple created a technological jail then told idiots it was cool and they bought it.
The irony is the famous 1984 commercial. You know the sinister man up on the screen with the braindead zombies staring at him. Following whatever he says and buying anything he sells...... *looks at apple* hmmmm yea what does that remind me of?
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