less reason to trust apple
Amazing. The iPhone price dropped by $200 with no compensation (as yet) to the early adopter. What I find disturbing is someone who saved two paychecks to buy an iPhone. What? If you can't afford it, why would you buy one, and then complain about it? It's similar to the idea of finding a nice, big-screen TV in a house owned by those "below the poverty level."
We really should teach children how to resist advertising messages that are designed to distort reality. So when they grow up, they will avoid being so easily seduced.
Two paychecks!? And as I said, Apple is fundamentally a proprietary company that, as I recall, support Microsoft Office Open XML over the OpenDocument Format. This price drop could also be regarded as a way to screw the hackers that cracked the iPhone. It could also be a response to China's distribution of an iPhone clone.
It's a splendid business move for Apple, admirable in its scope, suddenness and perhaps greed. It gives one more reason for me to remain attached to free-software and/or open-source cause. You never have to worry about buyer's remorse because there are no secrets. Milestones are acknowledged with little steps taken along the way, not announced dramatically or teased. Everything is open. You can read about Ubuntu's newest version (Gutsy Gibbons) to be released in October, and know which features are successfully completed, and which are not.
I would rather be a rebel than a soldier fighting for an emperor with Force Reality Distortion Field and Force Lightning. Bill Gates was vilified as "The Borg," assimilating everything in its path, trying to achieve "perfection." If Apple does compensate for the early adopters, then maybe all is forgiven. Maybe.
That doesn't mean, of course, I don't want an iPhone or an iPod Touch. There's something to be said about Jobs' penchant for beautiful design of software and hardware.
We really should teach children how to resist advertising messages that are designed to distort reality. So when they grow up, they will avoid being so easily seduced.
Two paychecks!? And as I said, Apple is fundamentally a proprietary company that, as I recall, support Microsoft Office Open XML over the OpenDocument Format. This price drop could also be regarded as a way to screw the hackers that cracked the iPhone. It could also be a response to China's distribution of an iPhone clone.
It's a splendid business move for Apple, admirable in its scope, suddenness and perhaps greed. It gives one more reason for me to remain attached to free-software and/or open-source cause. You never have to worry about buyer's remorse because there are no secrets. Milestones are acknowledged with little steps taken along the way, not announced dramatically or teased. Everything is open. You can read about Ubuntu's newest version (Gutsy Gibbons) to be released in October, and know which features are successfully completed, and which are not.
I would rather be a rebel than a soldier fighting for an emperor with Force Reality Distortion Field and Force Lightning. Bill Gates was vilified as "The Borg," assimilating everything in its path, trying to achieve "perfection." If Apple does compensate for the early adopters, then maybe all is forgiven. Maybe.
That doesn't mean, of course, I don't want an iPhone or an iPod Touch. There's something to be said about Jobs' penchant for beautiful design of software and hardware.
Labels: culture, openness, software, technology, ubuntu
posted by Alan at September 05, 2007
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