But for myself, it's not that I consider Apple products to be bad technology.

I simply can not accept agreeing to the EULA that comes with Apple's products.

As a result, if the only smart phone was an Apple smart phone, I'd still be on the Nokia "dumb phone" that was supplied by my carrier. At the time, it was the cheapest deal - that was my purchasing decision:

Meh, a phone is a phone. As long as it works, I'm good. What's the cheapest deal/plan you've got!

With regards the smart phone, the only reason I entered that market was because of Android. Even though I knew the carriers and manufacturers would still lock down the phones, I also knew that because the underlying base was open source, sooner or later my phone would be unlocked.

And I don't mean unlocked in the sense of "I can only use it with Carrier X", I mean unlocked in the sense "I control the software put on the device, I'm not forced to accept software on my device that I can not remove yet I also can not accept the EULA terms. Software that could easily be spying on me with key loggers that I can't even disable let alone remove.".

I strongly applaud Motorola's recent efforts with regards unlocking the software on certain devices. And I look forward to the day when we consumers can purchase the device direct from the manufacturer with software unlocked and free of the influences of the carriers.

Caveat: I have no proof Google owning Motorola influenced Motorola's decision to unlock the phones, but there does seem to be a strong correlation that's potential.

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That "expert" who testified for Apple that if there were no Androids then 100% of buyers of tablets/phones would buy Apple forgot to account for people like me.

At school I heard one of the teachers comment when handing out our books after marking them was that "the first thing all pupils did on getting their books back was to look at their mark" (which I did). So to prove him wrong, I managed to train myself NOT to look at my marks when I was given back a book and to leave it unopened in front of me.

Another teacher then told me off when I got back some marked work as he saw me sitting with my book unopened saying something like "ok, fred¹, you may have got the best mark, but you ought to read the comments I made". (Obviously he thought I was sitting there smug with he book closed because I got a good mark, not because I was proving another teacher wrong!).

¹Name changed to protect the guilty.

Oh, and I'm also in the 0% that this expert thinks would not buy an Apply device if it was the only one available.

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