If you buy an iPhone from Apple, you don’t own the iPhone. No. Apple owns you.
According to this item on Slashdot regarding this item from somewhere else on the intertubules.
So if you buy this thing, you can do whatever you want with it as long as whatever you want is what Apple wants. If you want to do something else with your thing, the Apple Police will come and get you.
Big brother, it turns out, is all about Oedipus.
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That’s why I find it cute when Mac’ers talk about how evil Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are. Steven Jobs is so much more of a control freak than either of those two ever have been.
Not that I am taking sides with Gates and Ballmer, I just think it’s cute.
I ranted a long while ago about the iUniverse; and it is epecially irritating that just by downloading Safari for Windows, the Mac software makes these assumptions about my usage; so I end up having to have Bonjour to have iTunes to have iSafari; and I ended up having all of these modules for mobile devices loading at startup when I don’t even have a freakin’ iAnything.
I wasn’t aware of this, I thought that Microsoft was the only bully on the block. I stand corrected. I have a sandisk mp3 player. I was thinking of getting an Ipod next time–but now I won’t. I don’t like submitting to a monopoly. That’s why I use wordpress for my blog, and I’m going to switch back to wordperfect for writing the next time I’m getting software. One of these days I’ll learn linux, but it’ll have to be between books and when I can get a laptop that will work with it.
I am a big fan of the Mac platform, but I have had mixed feelings about Steve Jobs’ Apple for some time. My basic attitude: I would probably buy an iPod touch, but I have no interest whatsoever in an iPhone precisely because of Apple’s closed-platform attitude.
Honestly, if I had anything like the programming chops I went to college for, I’d be working on a MacOS X clone — hell, I could probably build the whole thing off a Darwin fork if I was feeling particularly bloody-minded. It’s not like such a thing wouldn’t be a good idea — Apple has essentially told all its old-school Carbon programmers to go Cocoa or fuck off if they want to stay relevant.
I love my iPod Touch (I’m told “don’t say ‘iTouch’!!!). And since Apple based their system on *nix, and for varous other reasons, it is a fantastic platform.
However, there is a clear Apple business model. If you want to really use Macs to do your stuff, and the stuff you do is the kind of thing the Mac’s do especially well to the exclusion of other systems, you can’t hack around too much and you need to be prepared to lay out the cash, and to have Apple more than you determine when that might be … like when some major bit of software really requires an upgrade of hardware for reasons other than speed or memory, but because the software simply won’t run on the older hardware, etc.
I do find the cultism annoying. I’ve used macs semi-regularly since I wrote my thesis on one and produced a monthly newspaper/magazine thing on one back in the early 1990s, and for various things since. They do not “just work.” But they’re good, and they leave Windows in the dust.
I think Apple has been attempting the same thing with iTunes and access to the iPod databases (Go Rockbox!) I doubt these attempts will ultimately fly, especially in Europe and in the long run Apple’s push could give Android a boost.
I really love Apple stuff and from designer point of view the apple hardware and software is the best choice. Maybe they want big money but when designer buy the adobe soft it’s really not so much difference when you buy apple hardware with it. And wait for Snow Leopard…I think t will smash the os world:)