Re: What was that about hubris?

[chris () blask org]

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, charlie derr <cderr () simons-rock edu> wrote:
> Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> > Macs rock.  It's hard to say bad things about them, 

Oh, I dunno.  Let me try a few:

> DRM is the scourge of the earth and it's so embedded into

You touched right at the core of my dissatisfaction.  

[ahem]

Apple is touted by every dread-locked artist as this touchy-feeling Love Bug commune that grows computers using only 
organic whole-grain fiber drawn directly from the souls of baby Care Bears, when in reality it is the most insidiously 
controlling Mega Corp Corp. ever Fausted onto the backs of the Working Man! ("preach!")

Just three weeks ago I bought my first piece of Apple gear since my old Apple IIc - an iPhone.  Full of the joi d'vivre 
of new gadgetdom I configured a thing or two and went to download some of those cool apps I had heard so much about...  

...almost.  OK, so it needed me to create an iTunes account.  Something I had avoided like the plague for as long as 
the awful repository existed, but now I have no choice so I'll put my damn info in...

...almost.  Apparently you really can't create an iTunes account through your iPhone, though it makes you think you 
can.  So, fine, I'll fire up the laptop and plug in the aircard and go to the iTunes and plug in all my personal and 
financial info.  Why should Apple be the only people not to have it?  And since I'm just going to experiment and 
download a bunch of free apps it's not like they are going to be charging my credit card...

...almost.  Just got my bill, and it seems that Apple charges $1 for each "free" app an Apple iPhone user downloads 
from the Apple iTunes Internal Revenue Ser... - er - store.

God, Apple sure is so cool!!  Just makes me feel like putting on some tie-dye, burning some incense, lighting up a bong 
and sticking it *right* to The Man!  I'll be right back, I need to go throw a brick through the window of some Big 
Corporate douche executive (anyone know which one is Jobs' office?).

-chris


      

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