Apple's Haves and Have Nots, Around the World

Rambo Tribble writes "As this story in the Economist notes, Apple's policies regarding international sales are often confusing and outdated. Apparently, Apple either hasn't been aware of political and social changes in the world over the last 20 years, or doesn't wish to acknowledge them." Soulskill rightly notes that at least some of the complained-about policies boil down to Apple's adherence to local copyright and licensing laws.

Comments

Re:wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously. Just wait until the economist hears about region coded dvds!

Sick of this shit

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot: News for Apple, Apples that Matter

Some zenly advice

[mveloso]

Sometimes when something sucks it's not them - it's you.

Re:wow

[angularbanjo]

slapForehead();

Surely you mean

Forehead *myForehead = [[Forehead alloc] init];
[myForehead isSlapped:YES with:@"Hand"];
[myForehead release];

Re:Apples website in general

[Alex Belits]

* Accelerometer
* Proximity sensor
* Ambient light sensor

...all typical components of a bomb...

Re:wow

[donutello]

Also, you don't want to allocate a new instance of Forehead. You want to use the one you already have. And slap is an action, not a state.

[[Forehead sharedInstance] slap:[[Hand arrangedObjects] objectAtIndex:kHandLeftIndex]];