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Apple the No. 1 Danger To Net Freedom
CWmike writes "Columbia law professor Tim Wu, who coined the term 'net neutrality,' now says that Apple is the company that most endangers the freedom of the Internet. Wu recently published the book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, in which he details what he calls 'information empires' such as AT&T, NBC, Facebook, and Google. He told The New York Times, 'It's largely a story of the American affection for information monopolists and the consequences of that fondness.' When asked whether the Internet could similarly be controlled by large companies, he told the Times: 'I know the Internet was designed to resist integration, designed to resist centralized control, and that design defeated firms like AOL and Time Warner. But firms today, like Apple, make it unclear if the Internet is something lasting or just another cycle.' Asked which companies he feared most, Wu replied: 'Right now, I'd have to say Apple.'" Wu has been in the news a bit lately.
Those bastards.
Apple was, is and will continue to be a hardware company that benefits from open standards. They exert a lot of control over their products, but it only goes as far as their products. Apple will never have monopoly control because they only operate in high-end markets.
Jeez, just think how long it took you guys to get RIGHT CLICK ! Hahahahahahahah
1986? So ten years after Apple shipped the first computer and years before Windows supported the feature?
Steve Jobs asked for DRM free music from the begininning. I suppose you can rewrite history if it makes it align better with your flawed world view, but it does not make your re-write true.
IPhone OS is remarkable in that it actually has a catalog of software, and is relatively malware free.
There are scads of phones out there with a few dozen applications, that are malware free. There aren't any other phones with more than a tiny fraction of the software catalog that Apple has.
By the way, you do realize that when you write "fanboy" you come off as either a bitter old loon,or a fanboy of some other competing product? Your propaganda would be both more effective and less obvious if you were to leave the embittered attitude out of your posts. Then pele might take your ranting and raving seriously.