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Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs
Nrbelex writes "Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest "features" in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, 'fairplay'. Stross writes, 'If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.... You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.' Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the pas, continue to go unnoticed?"
Now if I could just get my wrist to be shaped more like an apple, I'd never have to worry about someone stealing my iPhone.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
What you have to realize is, the NYT matters. /. doesn't matter. Whatever you think about Apple, however much you want to make all kinds of excuses for it, when the NYT starts calling the Apple lockins 'crippleware', the world has changed. Apple is no longer cool. The iPhone isn't cool. Its just dysfunctional.
Its right there on the technology page. Apple just made an enormous howler. Time to stop making those excuses, because no-one is listening. Its like the invasion of Hungary. Sorry, the fraternal intervention in support of our comrades. No-one was listening after that either. This was the point where the rest of us could no longer avoid confronting what exactly Apple is, because its so in your face. And this is when they lost us.