Is Apple The New Microsoft?

Varg Vikernes writes "Even if you don't count Apple's actions this week as a potential threat to first amendment rights (Apple's crackdown on Web sites that love the company), they do nothing to bolster Apple's public image. In fact the company's success of late has yielded accusations of bullying and potentially unlawful business tactics, along with complaints about the fact that songs purchased from its iTunes music service don't work with music players other than its own. According to Forbes, to some these tactics sound like something Apple's neighbor to the North might employ. They wonder aloud Is Apple the New Microsoft?

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Re:No iTunes for Linux

[IamTheRealMike]

then over few days you'll get modded down with 'overrated'. why? because apple zealots read the stories even when they're old, normal people that would agree with your valid points don't read old apple stories.

A few days? I should be so lucky. That post went from +5 Insightful to +0 Redundant in about 20 minutes. That sort of thing does not make these discussions more interesting.

I'd like to say that's unusual, but it's not. I've had "-1 Insightful" posts on Apple stories before (but nothing else). If people are going to moderate, they should read the moderation guidelines: mod up the good posts, don't mod down unless it's clearly noise (GNAA posts etc).