Why We Hate Apple

Right from the very beginning of our entry into the world of personal computers (1981, with the introduction of the original IBM PC, which machine we acquired from the very first production line run), we've harbored something of a loathing for Apple Computer. First, because of its company-encouraged and –fostered cult-like following, and subsequently because of this sort of paranoid, control-freak behavior; an inviolable corporate way of doing business that's as much an Apple trademark as are their lowercase "i" products today, and has been since the corporation's formation.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, had asked for [an] exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow the so-called jailbreaking of iPhones and other devices.

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The issue has been a topic of debate between Apple, which says it has the right to control the software on its devices, and technically adept users who want to customize their phones as they see fit. In a legal filing last year with the United States Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress, Apple argued that altered phones infringed on its copyrights because they used modified versions of Apple’s operating system.

RTWT here.