Comments on: Well, thank you Apple!

By: Anders K. Madsen

Anders K. Madsen — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:30:29 +0000

It is primarily the fact that Apple just succumbs to the demands of the music/movie industry instead of taking a stand on behalf of their end-users — i.e. the consumers. Look what happened to DRM’d music once Apple ditched it on iTunes Music Store. The industry might listen if Apple speaks up, but they sure as hell will never listen to the consumers. Apple however seems to prefer to bend over for the industry and try to buy the end-users off with a shiny user interface and some over-hyped coolness factor, that’s becoming more and more like a sheep factor to me.

I’m not even buying music on iTunes, but it’s the general principle in it. Apple produces software — that I pay for — that restricts my options with my data, which I also pay for (at least “would be paying for” if I bought music and movies on iTunes). So the consumer pays twice to be screwed over once, now that’s an odd discount right there.

As for OS X as an OS. Simplicity must be the main keyword for OS X, but I’m a power-user and I don’t need simplicity. I can set up my Linux desktop to be simple in my way as opposed to the One Apple Way. (You see what I did there?)
OS X also “Just Works[tm]“. For the most part, Linux also Just Works for me, while it may need the odd 30m–4h rescue session because of a botched beta-upgrade or something, but hey, running a beta is my choice and if I don’t want to spend time fixing it I shouldn’t spend time breaking it in the first place, right? Switching to a stable release drastically increases the Just Works-ness and I don’t mind the least if I have to spend half an hour every now and then to make it Just Work in my way. Apple’s interpretation of Just Works seems to differ somewhat from mine in certain aspects.

I might even want to give Windows 7 a spin. Microsoft seems to be (slowly) getting the point and Windows 7 is getting rave reviews (for an MS product) all over.

By: Sune

Sune — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:49:02 +0000

On MORE than, “on more than a numerically limited”… Anyway…

By: Sune

Sune — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:46:10 +0000

That being said, if my suspicion happens to correspond to the realities of the situation, old Stevie shouldn’t let us know that “we” will let us do this and that–he should come out (not in that sense) complaining that “they” (the Culture Conglomerates) are the ones stopping ALL of us from enjoying our purchases on a numerically limited amount of hardware.

Reality Distortion Field At Work.

By: Sune

Sune — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:40:55 +0000

Is it the OS or the computer that’s bugging you? Or is it the old Tunes-of-i? (or is it the company producing these products, or any combination thereof?)

While I agree with you that this sort of restriction is, in the end, pointless and annoying, we should carefully stop at killing (not in the literal sense) the sender, not the messenger.

I honestly don’t think the fruit company could care less about how (or how much) content is distributed (maybe discounting their own software, that’s another discussion), but the fruit company only has so much bargaining power.

If other shops apart from the iT-store come up with better deals, then (as far as I know) there is nothing stopping us from adding those deals to our iT library (and adding the loot to other libraries on other machines).

Don’t kill old Herald!