Here’s another ethical question to consider when you invest in your next tech item. Do you want to buy something based on its apparent hype, or invest in something just as if not more usable and ethical? Will you continue to buy from Apple despite their zealousness in locking down what you can do with …
This is why I will never buy and/or use an Apple product. See, even if I did receive an old iWhatever as a gift, it would be completely useless to me as I can’t root the device and install Linux on it.
Steve Jobs: 1955 — 2011 I admire Apple for their design, and hated them for building walls around their products. Still, sadness fills me as the world marks the passing of a great human. An appropriate poem found on Slashdot: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square …
I do not hide my admiration for Apple Computers. I adore the simplicity of their designs, the very human-centric approach to the user-interface. Dammit they made tablet PCs cool! But due to the nature of the company, with it’s hyper-locked down App Store and promotion of proprietary formats, I don’t have the slightest intent to purchase …
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