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iOS 4 Releases Today
tekgoblin writes "Today Apple releases the much anticipated iOS 4 for iPhones and iPod Touches. No word on when we will see this update on the iPad." Can't wait to see all the neat new stuff that won't run on my stale phone.
Don't like it? Don't buy it. Some of us quite enjoy the user experience it provides. I'm sure you think we're sheep but we don't care. Just like we bought the product we liked and are happy with that purchase, we're fine with you buying the product you enjoy. So, again, you don't like the iPhone or any other Apple product? Fine. Don't buy it. Go buy something else.
Actually, it's become cool and "in" on Slashdot to bitch and complain about everything from Apple. It's _also_ a problem that Slashdot seems to report every time Steve Jobs sneezes (or whatever) but that's not what the OP was complaining about. He was doing the typical "Apple is a big bad poo poo head" thing that is all the rage.
Remember, Apple is no longer the underdog struggling against their evil corporate counterparts. They're now an evil corporation and thus everything they do is to be reviled. That, of course, is despite the fact that they make excellent products that are popular which are also forcing other companies to adapt and evolve (seriously, look at the (smart)phone landscape before the iPhone and compare it to after the iPhone).
The problem some of us have is that there are times that Apple needs to be called out for stupid shit because, as with every single company out there, they aren't perfect and they fuck up from time to time but they really don't need to be called out Every. Gawddamn. Time. It's kinda tedious reading the same bullshit over and over again. Repetition doesn't make it more true...
Read on - I'm sure someone is, right this moment, comment on how we all used to hate on Microsoft but Apple is now worse than they ever were while someone else is bitching about Apple's walled garden approach.
I'm always amused by bitter Apple-haters and their generic, non-specific criticisms. Absolutely nobody is forced to buy an Apple device, they're not "controlling" me in any way, and Apple's app screening is required for quality control and the fact AT&T requires them to because apps are using their wireless network. Stop being goofy and melodramatic. You'll die happier.
See you in line for an iPhone 4.
"iSlaves?" The smugness from the Apple-hating Slashbots today is pretty amusing and shows how out of touch this readership is getting. It's bad enough you get news half a week behind everyone else.
To be fair, the high end iPad costs only $829.00 plus a 3G contract. As computers go that's really cheap. Someone will point out that the 3G contract is more expensive then the computer, but you don't have to get a 3G contract to have a functional iPad. The last computer I bought cost over $3000.00. They basically do the same things. Almost equally well. It's kinda depressing.
I call troll. For $500 (yes, including monitor) you can have a modern system capable of occasional gaming, playback of HD video, and minor audio production/graphic design work.
Yes. $500. Including a monitor.
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That is the dumbest logic I've ever heard. I guess since I can make a call on my laptop then that makes it a phone?
Technically a digital watch is a computer, a calculator is a computer. What's your point?
The iPhone has done more to liberate consumers in the mobile market than any phone before or since. It's not perfect, but the mobile landscape was radically different 3 years ago and much has changed for the better because of the iPhone's release. In fact it was so good that Google, RIM, Windows, etc. jumped on the bandwagon and decided to copy it.
The iPhone IS a phone and if you don't like the curated approach Apple takes then STFU and buy something else. Disguising your hatred of Apple as a complaint about freedom is ridiculous.
So... Apple are bad, but everyone else is worse so it's ok?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Except for most of the time the Apple haters are the ones who get the facts wrong or exaggerate, so Apple fans spend a great deal of time correcting their lies/ignorance.
Take your disingenuous bullshit as an example. You stuck in the phrase "only from our store so we get a cut", as some stupid attempt to insinuate that this is the whole reason behind the curated app store model. What a load of self serving tripe. This is the kind of stupidity that Apple fans get sick of and why they defend against these sorts of BS arguments.
To correct your whiny rant I'll paraphrase your last statement:
The way you haters attack a company and then use disingenuous arguments is just sick. Most major corporations engage in business practices that are in some way unplatable to some of us. Even your beloved object of blind Apple hatred does this and is no different that Palm, Google or any other company. Get over it and quit trying to shoot the messenger who points it out when your beef is blind hatred of Apple.
I'm sure you can build a shitty little computer system for $500. My mother can build a shitty little computer system for $500 (including monitor). Do you think that's a talent? I built the first machine that made me more then $100,000 for less then $10.
Can you build it so thin?
Cool art gallery, if you're into that sort of thing.
Steve Jobs hates it? Wow, I didn't see that. Can you send me a link to where he said he hated it?
Apparently the only freedom being lost is the freedom to tell the truth rather than misrepresenting everything when you discuss Apple? It's not smugness of Apple fanboys you should be worried about, it's the blind hatred and dishonesty of Apple haters such as yourself. Apple fans only come out in force when they see dishonest stupidity like you just wrote. They have to constantly correct the lies and disinformation of those like yourself who can't seem to grasp that everyone doesn't have to conform to your vision of the world. That (gasp!) people don't want to ADMINISTER their computers or devices at all, they just want them to work so they can move on with their day.
When you can get past your own ignorance and smugness then maybe you'll be able to see clearly to comment on others.