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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..."
I was perhaps your biggest fan. But an Apple boycott is not how you come back to us unless they've done something dire and they haven't.
Come back and let us beat down your trolls. That would be better than this.
If you can't do that, at least make the issue SOPA and PIPA. That we can get behind. Apple's not going to do it because their fans really don't give a darn about what us geeks think.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
I'll think you'll find that this is pretty much the trend with the majority of computer geeks.
And I think if you ever go to any technical conference you'll find the trend still very much favors Apple hardware.
Some of us appreciate a commercial UNIX system with great hardware and great commercial software support.
It was always the technical geeks behind Apple's growth and I don't see that slowing or stopping even if there is a very vocal contingent of irrational Haters that will just not let people use what they find suits them best.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Pretty suspect you can't even point out one thing that is a "lie". Methinks you are just another rabid Apple Hater who cannot stand to see a single positive note posted about them, even when you cannot find a single flaw within...
Note readers he'll now come back with a single item from the story he claims to represent a "lie" but it will be horribly distorted from reality.
Isn't it amazing how I can predict his response before he writes it? Not really, for you see the Apple Haters have not been able to come up with new negative points in about a decade. So as I noted they vomit over any note of positivity claiming they are all lies. It's all they have left at this point...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Interesting your choice of the word "ban" there. Not simply "refused to include in iOS on performance grounds".
They didn't "ban" it from their other major platform where they were also simultaneously pushing HTML5 - the desktop.
They stated from the outset that Flash was a dog for performance, especially on mobile devices. Adobe belatedly agreed with them. Everyone's happy.
Also, how are they "trying hard to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on any non-Apple device"? The install DVD is non-encryted, with no serial number, no activation, no hidden partitions that make it difficult to burn or image, and a simple text file in the image that says "please don't steal OS X" that you can remove, allowing a bootable installer to be made for a Hackintosh.
The downloadable 10.7 installer is a simple package with a disk image (again, unencrypted, with no serial, no activation).
I'm not sure how they could make it *easier* let alone "trying hard to make it impossible" as you claim. If you are having trouble, I suggest that computers might not be for you. There are some crayons over there and some paper.
And how long do you thing you can develop for Mac OS X without worrying about treading on Apple's toes? Right now on IOS you have to worry about treading on Apple's toes. When you write apps that compete with Apple on IOS your app gets banned under the auspices of "Duplicate Functionality" And they tend to pick off the best features from other apps to use as their own.