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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 07:33 PM EDT |
Sure, among anyone who reads articles and thinks about the
legal issues involved, Apple is looking pretty bad right
now, and will look progressively worse over the near future.
But I fear the iPhone-buying public just doesn't give a rip.
They see the iPhone, and it is a well-made, quality device
that works well and is generally more trouble-free than its
Android competitors (this is coming from a big Android fan,
mind you). They don't seem to currently care that Apple's
suppliers literally work people to death in Asian
sweatshops, so why should they care about legal battles
between two multinational megacorporations?
For middle-class and above folks, the iPhone isn't "cool",
it is simply "normal", and people who worry about software,
patents, etc. are just geeks.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
Awesome idea and perfect timing!
The scarcity is gone, the model-to-model differentiation only reveals me as a
locked-in slave to the 2-year upgrade cycle. iPhone/iPad ownership has gone from
early-adopter cool to uh?
The cool kids have moved on.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: soronlin on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 06:18 AM EDT |
Apple have not been the girl throwing the hammer since the first Macintosh
Computer was released. They have always been Big Brother.
The Macintosh was a single closed-specification box and 100% GUI with no command
line anywhere. But to program it you bought a development kit that created a
command-line. Apple did not eat its own dog food. To make hardware for it, or
even to open the box, you paid more money to Apple. This at the time the IBM PC
came with a circuit diagram and a listing of the BIOS.
Apple has got better over the years; at least now some of their kit is based on
open hardware and open software. But you still can not open the box, not even to
change a battery.
They make nice kit, but it works the way Apple says it works and it does what
Apple says it does. It's built for maximum profit. If you don't like it, tough;
Apple don't want partners, they want customers. If they want your opinion
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