Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott

walterbyrd writes with a quote from an article at Techrights: "Given the latest actions from Apple we cannot help recommending that people buy nothing from Apple. Boycott the company for being a threat to the IT landscape and also to common sense." More from the article: "...Apple has been working hard to embargo — not just sue — the competition. Apple disregards the notion of fair competition..."

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Re:Apple not alone

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the other patent/IP assholes, such as Microsoft, Sony, and Oracle? Why target just one?

because obviously somebody is getting paid to target just one, ooops did i say that out loud?

Patent fight not the only reason

[StripedCow]

There are more reasons to boycott apple. For example,

- DRM. Download music from iTunes, and you can only play it on a limited number of computers (try it and you'll find out). Plus, your name gets engraved into the downloaded files so that they or their partners from the music industry can trace a copyright infringement back to you. Apple is downright an extension of the music industry. (Steve Jobs even received a Grammy Trustees Award for his accomplishments for the recording industry, or RIAA).

- Locking hardware to software. Back in the 80s, IBM and Microsoft had a deal that turned out to be very sweet for consumers: software and hardware were no longer tied together. As a result, any manufacturer could make PCs, and the major operating system of that time (if you like it or not) could run on it regardless of the brand of the computer. It even allowed the development open-source operating systems, without jail-breaking. Apple is reversing this. If IBM followed the strategy that Apple is taking now, I bet that Linux would not have even been possible.

- Pushing of proprietary standards. Many apps developed today could just as well be developed using open standards, e.g., HTML and javascript. Instead of aiding the further development of these standards, they are sucking developer power into their own eco-system and make the apps, that would otherwise be available to everyone, only accessible to their own customer-base.

- Being the middle-man. Any content provided by external parties, be it software (apps), music, movies or magazines, gets an Apple tax. Even Microsoft wasn't that evil.

- Being secretive about developer revenues. Developing for iOS isn't as lucrative as Apple makes us believe it is. Only a very small portion of the developer-base makes a lot of money. Those are the ones we hear about in the news. The majority, however, has a hard time to recover their investments, or makes a loss.

And, if you google around, I'm sure you'll find many other reasons to dislike Apple.

Apple does not block choice.

[SuperKendall]

when that is precisely Apple's strategy

You seem to have forgotten that Apple is only suing Samsung, not other tablet makers.

You can always tell the haters by the way they distort reality in any way possible (or frankly impossible) to make Apple the worst in any given comparison.

Apple is blocking choice for no-one. Haters like you have claimed that for some time now even though Apple was one of the big players heavily pushing HTML-5 and shipped the very first Intel macs with Bootcamp. Foes of choice indeed!

Few companies have done as much for interoperability as Apple has done over the years. Apple is after all the company that broke the music industry of the DRM habit. Yet you would ignore that accomplishment and belittle them for things they have not done.

and the reason the majority of "Haters" exist.

Since Apple Haters have been around long before the Samsung lawsuit your expiation of origin leaves much to be desired.

Re:"Apple not a Producer" - really?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I find the patent activities Apple is engaging in absurd and evil....snip....the solution is not to boycott Apple

The ghost of the reality distortion is stronger in this one than any I have seen.

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BOW DOWN UNBELIEVERS AMONGST YOU. OUR DARK LORD RISES SOON.

Re:Boycotts

[GameboyRMH]

I don't think they are. Marketing is so powerful now that it's effectively brainwashing most of the population. It's practically mind control.

I've never bought an Apple device in my life and will continue not to.

Fuck Apple and fuck their dumb fanboys. Apple is now worse than Microsoft ever was. Everyone who supports them at this point is a dumb sheep helping to destroy computing, no exceptions, no excuses.

BTW, they've patented fuel cells on a cell phone now.