6th Gen iPod Nano

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(2012-12-12 15:47)Tommer Wrote:  Inevitable discussion about Apple

Apple products themselves are decent for the average user. They do what they say they do and do that well.

If you're a tinkerer, or a programmer or just someone who wants your phone to do a particular thing a tiny bit different you generally get a closed door to the face and hackers who break that door down tend to only get it open by a few cm if you know what i mean.

I don't like Apple ethos. Bullys. They make a lot of money and they know they can use it to bring people into court for the littlest stupid of things (remember the Apfelkind case anyone?) court cases aren't free and are damaging to new business.

To the new programmer they are the big 'bully' company, closed source, they charge for developer programs. Completely discouraging people from creating simple useful non-profit applications due to development costs.

There technology goes forwards, and backwards. The iPod got lighter ok, but it got bigger, less battery life, less space, for what? iOS touchscreen without phone and internet. Essentially useless. But people still buy this stuff because shiny and because they drill it into everyone head they're the best guys with propaganda and you know what? People suck it up and make them rich.

Jailbreak does anything you want to personalize. Obviously programmers rather have Android cause it's open source right?

As for the bullying, I don't like that either. They abuse their power of leading the market, but from their perspective it's what any company would do. And honestly, they're not the only one doing it, it'd be ignorant to say that.