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Apple Blacklists "Rumor Promoting" Publications
Billy_D_Goat writes "Talk about control, Apple has now decided it can block users from recieving media passes at MacWorld Expo It blacklists these users by deciding if they run "rumor promoting" publications. This includs the webmasters of sites which have little to do with rumors or speculation such as Graphicpower.com/." Probably
just bitter cuz Steve's thunder seems to get stolen at every show, and
their lawyers can't seem to stop it ;)
That's why I can never own a mac. The community should be able to write what they want to write without fear that it will hurt their standing.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
This brings back memories of Apple's "worst business moves era" back in the mid/late 90s.
He may innovate on interface and have some minor hardware achivements, but overall, Apple has only moved ahead as Microsoft caught up. Without MS there wouldn't be anything worthwile from Apple.
Everyone says look how stable the Apple OS is, of course, it only achived that by dropping all their old code and building upon BeOS.
Now he blacklists the very people who love him dearest. Images of abused housewives coming back for another beating fill my head... Here's some advice.. The jackass isn't worth it... Walk away!
Troll me if you want... But Steve's action speak for themselves, this guy has a fear of being insignificance...
Way to go Apple, shoot yourself in the foot again... Next time aim closer and blow it off.
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Diminish Jobs' announcements?
Puh-lease. Perhaps if he didn't try to hype trivialities that would have some validity, but really... Last two I can think of, the iPod and the flat-screen iMacs. Whoop-de-freakin-do. Two things that already existed (albeit in slightly less convenient forms), and people should get all excited? "Now with 18% more Spleem! Act fast, supplies are limited!"
Of *course* fans will feel dissapointed compared to the rumors, when the company hasn't made a real innovation in years. About the best thing they've done since the early 90's consists of switching to OS-X, but they managed to "dilute" that one by only pushing it on the high-end market at first.
Overall, sad. Mac fans talk about what a nice, friendly, innovative company Apple seems like, yet every major bit of news we hear about has them screwing someone else. No aqua-clones (even though they lost *that* suit to M$ years ago). No rumor-mills (1st amendment, anyone?). No 3rd-party hardware (amazingly, when they did allow that for a short time, their popularity reached an all-time high).
Just keep screwing the customers. It appears that artists and business-weenies don't notice anyway, and will defend Apple with their dying breath (sucked out by Apple itself), so no harm done.
You're thinking of corporations as seperate entities from the government. Here in the real world things don't really work like that. Criminal law is increasingly being penned by boards of directors and rubber-stamped by congresses and parliaments.
Some countries throw you in jail for speaking out against government/corporations, others fine you, others bar you from going to certain places or doing certain things. Certainly jail is alot more harsh but these are all punishments.
A Chinese dissenter being thrown in jail differs from a reporter barred from MacWorld only in scale (admittedly we're talking orders of magnatude).