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Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-know-this-guy-named-steve dept.

InfoWorldMike writes to tell us that InfoWorld's Tom Yager recently had the chance to sit down and chat with Apple about their closing the OS X Kernel. From the article: "The Mac platform is an overflowing basket of raw materials for innovators and creators of all stripes. It's what Steve Jobs would fantasize about if he still worked out of his garage, and you can bet that he'd be livid to find that the vendor locked some portion of his chosen platform behind a gate without a word of notice or explanation."

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  1. Re:Personally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You do that. Enjoy the view from your mother's basement.

  2. Re:Why? by kronnek · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why the F do I have to buy a Mac Mini... That's gey.... There's no reason to support propritary hardware in a world of knockoffs. They would do so much better competing with Windows directly. They are the better OS choice and they don't seem to know it. What gives?

  3. Re:Rule #1 For Understanding Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Crapple is a shitty company.

  4. George Bush's fault by elmerf9001 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Subject says it all, fellow coward democraps

  5. Re:Why hasn't anybody mentioned DRM yet? by ScrewYouTroll · · Score: -1, Troll

    They have. They just get modded down by all the mac snakeoil drinkers here.

  6. Re:Part Deux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple is for sperm drinking faggots who enjoy another man's HIV infected penis ejaculating up their anus. It is perversion. Most Apple boys are fags.

    Q.E.D.

  7. Re:Personally by steeviant · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have a nice time "locked-in" your mom's toilet jacking off over a full page spread of Dick Stallman.

  8. This long time apple fan is PISSED OFF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been an apple fan for a long time.

    15 years to be exact. and YEAH they are losing touch with the OS community. Not only the OS community, the computing community as a whole. I'm a meager software developer and I spent my hard earned cash on an apple product that buzzes, whines, burns myself, gets poor wifi reception, has a underclocked video card and so on.

    This isn't PLAYSKOOL play time computers apple, get it together. You have lost THIS mac fan.

    Not to mention their ridiculous phone support, i could get even more worked up over that.

    http://digg.com/apple/USERS_Strike_BACK_against_Ap ple_s_product_quality

    I just saw this little site pop up on the apple forums. Its a little extreme but at least someone is trying to keep track of all this ridiculous behavior out of the apple camp.

    good luck.

    good bye

    good night apple