On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:22:17 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:47:33 -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> >>>> *Meanwhile* iOS is *so* polished, so easy, so intuitive & yes*very* >>>> pretty. >>> >>> Apple products are so closed, so limited and so restricted that renders >>> you hardware into a beatiful brick. >> >> Closed, yes. >> >> A brick, no. >> >> Limited and restrictive are relative notions... > > It's all relative... But to my eyes, Apple devices are just beautiful > bricks, plenty of traps with an invisible and "costly" price (and I'm not > speaking about $). I cannot feel confortable with a company policy that > prevents the movements of the users for their products in the way Apple > does.
>From a FOSS religious perspective, Apple products could be considered bricks but from the practical perspective of 99% of computer users who want to connect to networks, share out files, surf the web, receive and send email, play A/V files locally or through their browsers, read and edit word/spreadsheet/PDF/presentation documents, Apple, Linux, and Windows are just as suited to their needs and requirements. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxw52tdwvk_p3erlsr+gpbqamr1d0fdqtdmnr1h6eh...@mail.gmail.com