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RogueAlan
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Apple wants all their customers to think of them as touchy feely, green, consumer friendly, yada yada yada...
Some of their products are great... the touch screen on the iphone is better then any other touch screen i've seen, and the battery life on even the old iTouch is impressive.
But it was a decade before they freed up songs that A CONSUMER HAD PAID FOR to be used on anything but the one ipod that was slaved to it. You cannot easily ad/ change batteries in the ipod, or ANY of the hardware on their computers... If you want an upgrade, you go through them, not an after market company.... that's the definition of MONOPOLY.... and they've managed to get America to buy into the sleight of hand that they aren't.
Hell, the ads touting their 'virus proof' systems ignore that they're only virus proof because they occupy such a small percentage of the market that it isn't worth the hackers' time/ effort to try to breach them except to prove periodically that it's doable.
In short, anything that challenges Apple OR Microsoft's stranglehold benefits the consumer... Dell's netbooks offered a not Windows OS but it was clunky and required computer savvy... Google and 'cloud' computing offer some serious competition, but Google is becoming yet another monolith we'll all have to keep an eye on...
So Android is going to push Apple to open iPhone to others besides AT&T and to open the aps to more outsiders... Last I heard Android aps were growing at a rate that should alarm Apple.
As with anything, the minute you sit back & say 'look, we're on top!' someone is going to catch you (right Leon Lett?). But that's the great thing about Capitalism and competition... that pushes development forward and prices down.
From a strictly lascivious perspective, the 'adult' content i've seen on my itouch/ iphone has been weak... and periodically the puritans at Apple go through and without real rationale or logic deem various aps 'inappropriate' while shielding others that have a greater monetary investment in Apple but have less appropriate material... Considering I'm writing on FreeOnes, I'm pretty liberal when it comes to what people should be able to see and say on their computer, laptop, palm, cell, netbook... you name it. So the 'parental' actions of Apple this summer rankled.
The FIRST thing I saw on the 'internet' was a scan of a penthouse pet... acting like Applie is pure and family oriented for banning nudity when the music they sell is marked 'EXPLICIT' every other item exemplifies what's wrong with this country... Denigrate women/ races/ couples/ alternative lifestyles/ etc all you want to other people's music and you're an artist. Take off your clothes, & you're an anarchist, bent on destroying the country. Sad sad sad.
So maybe Applel will have to get competetive in the realm of cellphone porn, do ya think? Ha.
pax RA
Some of their products are great... the touch screen on the iphone is better then any other touch screen i've seen, and the battery life on even the old iTouch is impressive.
But it was a decade before they freed up songs that A CONSUMER HAD PAID FOR to be used on anything but the one ipod that was slaved to it. You cannot easily ad/ change batteries in the ipod, or ANY of the hardware on their computers... If you want an upgrade, you go through them, not an after market company.... that's the definition of MONOPOLY.... and they've managed to get America to buy into the sleight of hand that they aren't.
Hell, the ads touting their 'virus proof' systems ignore that they're only virus proof because they occupy such a small percentage of the market that it isn't worth the hackers' time/ effort to try to breach them except to prove periodically that it's doable.
In short, anything that challenges Apple OR Microsoft's stranglehold benefits the consumer... Dell's netbooks offered a not Windows OS but it was clunky and required computer savvy... Google and 'cloud' computing offer some serious competition, but Google is becoming yet another monolith we'll all have to keep an eye on...
So Android is going to push Apple to open iPhone to others besides AT&T and to open the aps to more outsiders... Last I heard Android aps were growing at a rate that should alarm Apple.
As with anything, the minute you sit back & say 'look, we're on top!' someone is going to catch you (right Leon Lett?). But that's the great thing about Capitalism and competition... that pushes development forward and prices down.
From a strictly lascivious perspective, the 'adult' content i've seen on my itouch/ iphone has been weak... and periodically the puritans at Apple go through and without real rationale or logic deem various aps 'inappropriate' while shielding others that have a greater monetary investment in Apple but have less appropriate material... Considering I'm writing on FreeOnes, I'm pretty liberal when it comes to what people should be able to see and say on their computer, laptop, palm, cell, netbook... you name it. So the 'parental' actions of Apple this summer rankled.
The FIRST thing I saw on the 'internet' was a scan of a penthouse pet... acting like Applie is pure and family oriented for banning nudity when the music they sell is marked 'EXPLICIT' every other item exemplifies what's wrong with this country... Denigrate women/ races/ couples/ alternative lifestyles/ etc all you want to other people's music and you're an artist. Take off your clothes, & you're an anarchist, bent on destroying the country. Sad sad sad.
So maybe Applel will have to get competetive in the realm of cellphone porn, do ya think? Ha.
pax RA
