On Feb 2, 4:21 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > More evidence of > dictatorship:http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/apple-stanza-usb/?utm_source=fee...)
The motto of my favorite sitcom "Seinfeld" was "No hugging, no learning". Now this ain't "Seinfeld", so I want to virtually hug all the discussion participants and share what I've learned here. - You can install apps freely on most phones, but not on the iPhone. - The iPhone is a dictatorship. Some developers complain loudly, but users still don't care how sausages/laws/iPhone apps are made and continue to buy sausages/elect politicans/download iPhone apps in droves. <sarcasm> - I like iTunes so I must have "odd reasons". Who needs an app where you can buy, organize, search and sync all your media? Real men copy files by hand. - With 16.4% global smartphone market share in Q4/2009 (third place: Nokia 39.2%, RIM 20.2%), the iPhone is the "incumbent with a near monopoly". Take this, Bill Gates - Microsoft didn't have desktop OS monopoly with 90% market share (at least you said it didn't, and who are we to not believe you?!). - I want to use the iPhone "for any content I already own AND for flash video", but Apple stops me from "doing what I want with hardware and content that I have purchased and should be able to use freely". Look, my Blackberry can play any content I've ever purchased, why can't my stupid iPhone? And doing with your hardware what you want? Strongly encouraged by mobile phone vendors and mobile operators! - The iPhone locks you in with "apps, music" etc., and when you "have $3K of content tied to their platform" you realize that you can check out but never leave. iPhone apps don't run on Android? The outrage! Why doesn't Apple pay me back for all my apps when I switch to another phone? And surely Apple must be the one and only company with DRM content! - The worst: The iPhone really is an evil scheme of Steve Jobs and the Chinese government to dispose of the Chinese opposition! You know, when they use their Dala Lama app on the iPhone, the Apple servers will detect them and trigger the kill switch and wipe out the phone, the dissident or the entire block, depending on how much battery life is left. It's been staring us in the face all the time - "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China" is printed on every iPhone! Where is Robert Langdon when you really need him? But there's still hope that the masses will come to their senses and eschew Apple's iron fist for products from such fine companies as Nokia, Google, or Microsoft. Ok, Nokia has been building mobile phones since 1987, but one of these days they're sure going to build something as good as the iPhone. Yes, Google already knows more about you than your wife, but would you rather have the Government know and send the black helicopters after you? And Microsoft is a convicted monopolist and would like to know even more about you than Google, but putting the start menu in Windows Mobile was pure genius after all. Remember: Freedom has a price! So join the resistance and abandon Apple! </sarcasm> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
