Oh of course, I disagree with you, therefore I must be one eyed and think they can do no wrong. Nice ad-hominem there.
There are plenty of things that Apple do where I wish they did certain things better. I'd love to have DRM free iBooks and movies, for example, and I hate the mess that iTunes has become because of the conflation with the store. But that's specifics, which of course you haven't seen me talk about.
Perhaps my support of their actions generally is a little simpler to explain than that - most of the money Apple makes a profit from comes directly from end-consumers, so most of the time, their priorities are:
1. Protect themselves (which is a priority for every company that plans to exist for more than a year) 2. Protect/Support the end consumer (who is actually their paying customer).
If they fuck up anyone else in a variety of marketplaces, they don't care... And it's not really their job to. If you want to criticise that aspect of their business, you should criticise a whole bunch of other companies who are much worse behaved first, and maybe even start with corporate capitalism generally.
Yes, it's bad for everyone except Apple - and the end consumer, who's the person forking out the money, and therefore wants the best price and the most convenient method of payment *and* the ability to not have their personal details sold to the advertising industry.
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Date: 2011-04-19 06:28 am (UTC)There are plenty of things that Apple do where I wish they did certain things better. I'd love to have DRM free iBooks and movies, for example, and I hate the mess that iTunes has become because of the conflation with the store. But that's specifics, which of course you haven't seen me talk about.
Perhaps my support of their actions generally is a little simpler to explain than that - most of the money Apple makes a profit from comes directly from end-consumers, so most of the time, their priorities are:
1. Protect themselves (which is a priority for every company that plans to exist for more than a year)
2. Protect/Support the end consumer (who is actually their paying customer).
If they fuck up anyone else in a variety of marketplaces, they don't care... And it's not really their job to. If you want to criticise that aspect of their business, you should criticise a whole bunch of other companies who are much worse behaved first, and maybe even start with corporate capitalism generally.
Yes, it's bad for everyone except Apple - and the end consumer, who's the person forking out the money, and therefore wants the best price and the most convenient method of payment *and* the ability to not have their personal details sold to the advertising industry.