iPad: is Apple the devil?
January 29, 10 by Mark75As you surely know, Apple presented the new iPad. This gave me the opportunity to ask a simple question: why is Apple considered part of the good guys? To the point that often you can recognize the “bad guy” in a tv show because he’s the only one that has a PC.
Let me explain. If you ask an Apple user of why he/she likes Apple products, often you’ll hear answer such as “it has evereything you need“: for example, the first time you turn on an iMac you already have lots of application, even to edit video. Windows hasn’t anything like that. But… Microsoft was nearly denied to put the web browser in Windows, in Europe, because it was considered unfair competition. So why those rules does not apply to Apple?
Apple has maybe created the most strictly closed environment — the iPhone store is a good example of how the user is constrained — and it appears that the new iPad won’t be anything different. Such a closed environment shouldn’t put Apple between the “bad guys”? Often people talk about Apple and Linux in opposition to the “evil” Microsoft: but personally, I wouldn’t put Apple and Linux on the same level…
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