Well I don't own any Apple iThingies and I doubt I ever will but this
doesn't surprise me at all. Apple is simply trying to leverage as much
profit as possible from their wildly popular devices and their owners.
Interesting that you allude to 1984 Big Brother as it goes right back to
Apple's iconic ad from years ago.
Charlie
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/179215/Apple-eBook-Rules-Changing-For-Sellers
>
> I have used Apple hardware and software for almost a decade now. It
> saddened me to see
> their progression from the cool, creative underdog, to an unethical,
> controlling,
> 1984-big-brother-esque evil empire.
>
> The total lock-down and control they try to exercise over their mobile
> devices
> (iPhone, iPad) has long already caused me to vow to never ever buy a
> device on that
> platform. I am a software developer, and I would like to write any
> software for,
> or install any software on, *my* device, which I purchased and now
> fully own, thank
> you very much.
>
> The level of greed and arrogance portrayed by a move such as this,
> however - as well
> as their complete halt on software innovation on the Mac OS X platform
> for at least
> 5 years now - is enough to make me boycott them entirely.
>
> Microsoft, even at their worst, was nothing compared to this.
> Anybody else feel the same?
>
> Dawid
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