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Apple Wants Patents For Crippling Cellphones

Posted by kdawson on from the say-it-ain't-so-steve dept.

theodp writes "Evil is in the eye of the beholder, but there's certainly not much to like in the newly-disclosed Apple patent applications for Systems and Methods for Provisioning Computing Devices. Provisioning, says Apple, allows carriers to 'specify access limitations to certain device resources which may otherwise be available to users of the device.' So what problem are we trying to solve here? 'Mobile devices often have capabilities that the carriers do not want utilized on their networks,' explains Apple. 'Various applications on these devices may also need to be restricted.'"

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  1. Apple seems intent on suicide by syousef · · Score: 0, Troll

    I admit it. I hate Apple. I hate their philosophy. I hate their restrictions. I hate their closed nature. I hate their smugness. I hate their marketing lies like "it just works" and "think different" (aka like a brainwashed moron).

    But lately I was very happy when my hip cool 20-something cousin who goes to clubs and uses MSN and Facebook and Twitter bought an iPhone and was cursing about it almost immediately. If they can't get the young hip crowd with their non-functional difficult to used crippled horseshit maybe there is hope that in the not too distant future the company will just fucking die. All I hear about lately is how Apple is restricting some nice neat feature or use of a device. Fuck them. Die evil turtle neck wearing turkies!!!

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    These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
  2. Re:Confirmed by Khyber · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was born and alive in the 80s. I used Apple then, it sucked. A few years back I had a job working as an Apple laptop repair tech. Guess what? They STILL sucked. I had never seen so many failure rates. Hel, most of the refurbished machines would kernel panic, requiring several different repairs to get in working order again. Let's not even get into the pain of trying to reimage the laptops. That froze up half of the time because the Apple Image Server SUCKED BALLS yet it had more hardware than I could piss on.

    Now they're just sucking even more.

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  3. Re:Not free=flawed? by Savior_on_a_Stick · · Score: 0, Troll

    For the same thing you pay, I get a business account with 5 times the bandwith, no cap and a .240 subnet

    I was going to say that you're just a pissy little bitch - then I realized that you really ARE someone's bitch.