On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +0000, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:17:35PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > > While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know > > better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any > > possibility of using it in any other way" it does seem to be the one > > that makes it most explicitly a part of its flagship products. > > "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll > disable any possibility of using it in any other way and not even tell > you about some of the 'features' we've embedded in it"
Such as removing the option to disable use of Gracenote in one upgrade, such that the only way to stop it was to locally firewall their servers. Or maybe that should be "rah rah rah, OS X. Comes with a flexible firewall" (And no, I don't want you sorting by track name. That doesn't work for classical music) Nicholas Clark
