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Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"?

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-mouse-button-to-rule-them-all dept.

jira writes "'You may think you own your iPad or iPhone but in reality an invisible string links it back to Apple HQ' writes John Naughton. He adds: 'Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one. His reasoning was that, like the Roman church, Apple offered a guaranteed route to salvation – the Apple Way – provided one stuck to it. PC users, on the other hand, had to take personal responsibility for working out their own routes to heaven.'"

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  1. Re:Present continuous tense is unnecessary by smallfries · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you really think that grammar is the biggest issue with this piece of flamebait?

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  2. Re:It's like being at school by JustOK · · Score: 0, Troll

    no one owns an apple product. They just pay for them.

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  3. Re:What by opkool · · Score: 1, Troll

    So not ALLOWING Flash, even when Adobe does all the work is being good? How about FORCING publishers to sell their content at a 30 percent loss on the App Store, that is being good?

    How long has it taken for Adobe to publish Flash for Android? For ever. And it is sub-par, to say the least.

    And Flash is still not on the Xoom yet.

    And about the 30%, how much does a bookstore keep per sold book? It is about 50% (heard it on a recent show form Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv ) . Also an interesting read on publishing industry is http://www.fonerbooks.com/

    With Apple, Amazon and now Google, authors are finally allowed to sell directly to their readers.

    Back to Flash, I block Flash on both FFox and Chrome on my Linuxes. And Sure as hell I will not install it on my rooted nook color. So if I had an iThing, I would not want Flash on it.

    Sure, most of Flash problems is due to awful Flash developers. But always bad developers go in hand with bad tools that allow small flash banners to max your CPU.

    It is a hard day when on Slashdot someone praises Flash, a platform that has a history of being very unfriendly to *nix systems.

    And don't make me call good'ole RMS on you, or he'll chase you all the way to your Starbucks with an EMACS manual while chanting "who needs Flash? Flash is not GNU/Free Software!".

    Peace.