Apple: We like that app so much we're going to BAN it and then copy it as a feature.

[MotionMan]

How about he didn't want to listen to a bunch of apple fanbois ry to defend Apple practices all the while bitching and moaning about other companies doing similar things?
Steve Jobs could kill all the remaining California Condors and throw them on a BBQ grill and Apple fanatics would try and defend his actions. There is nothing wrong with liking Apple products, but to be so blinded by some false sense of Apple superiority is foolish.
What I find more amusing is how shifty and shady Apple is and how they use "slave labor" in China and make huge profits on high profit margin devices, yet a large percentage of their customer base claims captialism is bad, and we should do what we can to reduce our carbon foot print, but they keep buying the newest Apple product regardless of if they actually need it.

This portion of the discussion has been closed.

MotionMan

 

[Ns1]

What I find more amusing is how shifty and shady Apple is and how they use "slave labor" in China and make huge profits on high profit margin devices, yet a large percentage of their customer base claims captialism is bad, and we should do what we can to reduce our carbon foot print, but they keep buying the newest Apple product regardless of if they actually need it.

Here is the part of the thread where we start pulling facts out of our ass.

 

[MotionMan]

Here is the part of the thread where we start pulling facts out of our ass.

87.6% of threads end this way.

MotionMan

 

[cheezy321]

The connection you are making is a bit of a stretch. You can easy relate anything to violent crime (and Hitler).

Not the exact same thing.

I did not say one thing about violent crime. I compared someone breaking a law to someone violating a TOS. Do you think this is an invalid comparison? Please explain why if so.

 

[akugami]

I hate Apple and am going to take potshots (valid or not) at Apple, Steve Jobs, and Apple fanboys.

Edited and paraphrased for conciseness.

 

[zerocool84]

I did not say one thing about violent crime. I compared someone breaking a law to someone violating a TOS. Do you think this is an invalid comparison? Please explain why if so.

In all fairness, just because they broke the TOS doesn't mean the TOS are fair. Just look at what happened to Microsoft. Plus your drug analogy doesn't work because it wasn't illegal just against the TOS which are two totally different things. TOS can be later found to be uncompetitive and illegal and Apple is well known to act like how Microsoft used to act.

 

[MotionMan]

How is the App Store TOS presented to the developers? Is it a written and signed paper contract? Is is a pop up/shrink wrap-type license? Confirmed via e-mail?

I am not a developer and I do not work in IT, but even even I have known about the limitations in the TOS for what seems like years.

MotionMan

 

[finbarqs]

yeah... open season for apple's picking if you DO NOT follow the TOS.

 

[MotionMan]

yeah... open season for apple's picking if you DO NOT follow the TOS.

I am not sure the two events (developer not following the TOS and Apple integrating an idea into iOS) are that closely related.

Do you think that Apple would not have used that idea in the next iOS if it had been allowed to remain in Camera+?

How many utilities' ideas did MS integrate into Windows, effectively killing the utility?

MotionMan

 

[finbarqs]

too bad no porn apps for the iphone... Since iphone may come to sprint in the fall.... I just may ditch my hope for wp7 and jump on Apple's big, black, 3.5" screen...