Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

jfruhlinger writes "Think today's world, where Apple is the innovative underdog, Google is the company that does no evil, and Microsoft sits atop its throne as ruler of an evil empire. Will this state of affairs last forever? You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates. Don Reisinger muses on the fickleness of consumer loves and hates. 'It's that same [level of] success and its own questionable privacy practices that will lead to Google's PR downfall and propel it into a position of disdain going forward. Trust me, the future of Apple and Google may look bright from an economic standpoint, but these companies will be hated one day too. Sad, but true.'"

Comments

First Trout!

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a FISH!

Re:First Trout!

[Brian Gordon]

Thread hijacked.

Nobody ever liked bill gates.. he made his fame and first fortune writing Altair BASIC and trying to sell it to the Homebrew Computer Club. One guy got ahold of the tape and copied it for everyone else in the club.. nobody even understood that gates wanted to keep his program proprietary because that idea was just completely unheard-of.

Re:First Trout!

[utopianfiat]

Epic Troll.

must be a slow newsday

[methuselah]

this looks like troll food to me...

Hey Google and Apple fanboys

[j_166]

If you love Google and Apple so much, why don't you marry them? Afraid your kids will be funny looking?

Your Double Standard of Human Rights Amuses Me

[eldavojohn]

are you saying you want to be able to just walk in no questions asked and stay as long as you want in any nation? Wouldn't it be great? I mean, that almost sounds like freedom, doesn't it?

Sorry but no, I expect and want to be permitted to enter through legally established means, so that I may be an upstanding guest of the place I am visiting. What does legality have to do with where you want to live? Why do Americans receive protection in their pursuit of life, liberty & happiness?

Where does this hilarious double standard of "human rights" stem from? Why does the Bill of Rights say "Men" and not "Americans" when it talks of equality?

I guess we just fundamentally disagree. I guess I'll just go back to reading Samuel Langhorne Clemens & Thomas Paine and try to imagine how it used to be. It's a good thing they're dead and don't have to face today's America.

Re:No, we hated Apple from time to time

[jpellino]

I agree. The nerve.
How dare they not come out with Core 2 laptops and iPhones in 1998.
How dare they establish the desktop publishing industry.
How dare they lead the industry in legacy-free designs.

Time to time? Yes, hindsight is 20-20, but even with the gaffs, it's a net-plus.

Yes, sports fans, it's been quite the week for Apple users on /. - they have to sit on their hands while being regarded about as well as carriers of fulminating necrotizing hepatitis.

Joy.

Re:One day?

[Scrameustache]

And if you hold a grudge, the lawsuits they filed in the 80s over their look-and-feel is another (I only mention this because I hold a grudge against Microsoft for all of their anticompetitive practices of the past 20 years.) You mean the lawsuit they filed against Microsoft for having used the information about the windowed environment they gained from their partnership from Apple to make a competing product? The environment invented at Xerox and bought by Apple? That lawsuit?

You hate APPLE for that lawsuit???

Re:One day?

[Scrameustache]

You hate APPLE for that lawsuit??? I didn't say that I did. As I said quite clearly,

"There are decent enough reasons to hate Apple. The arbitrary lock-in of the OS is a good place to start. The hypocrisy of wanting to strip DRM from the media they sell while keeping DRM on their own OS is another. iPod lock-in is yet another. And if you hold a grudge, the lawsuits they filed in the 80s over their look-and-feel is another" So... you have many reasons to hate Apple, but you don't? :-s

Re:One day?

[Scrameustache]

I was giving reasons why a person might hate Apple, not stating my own personal opinions. Those reasons are your own personal opinions, not absolute objective truths.
You weren't clear on your non-adherence to the opinions you expressed.

But thanks for calling me either an asshole or an idiot, that's really cool.

Re:One day?

[Scrameustache]

The actions taken by Apple are simply truths. [...] frivolous-lawsuit Opinion.

You betray your true feelings with the opinions you express as facts.
And you seek to claim neutrality by obfuscating your real thoughts on the subject. It's good you "foed" me, saves me the trouble.

DRM on the OS

[Scrameustache]

DRM on the OS? If you mean the fact that you can't install the OS on any computer you want Not that I want to defend the hater, but no, he means that there is copy protection, software keys and whatnot, on sold copies of the Apple OS.

What the hater doesn't grok is that having a technical understanding that DRM is pointless and trying to make the business world understand that does not make your publicly traded company immune to due diligence. If Apple do not use the industry-standard copy protection measures, they will be sued for failing to maximize shareholder value.

Re:One day?

[Scrameustache]

I was never stating opinion in any of this--what part of that is so hard for you to understand? The part where you expect me to believe that.
You were stating opinions in your entire list, and you present them as valid reasons to hate Apple: You share, support and repeat those opinions.