[quote=bobby][quote=spdrun]Android. Unlike iOS, it doesn’t come crippled out of the box, and you don’t have some prudish f*cks in Palo Alto telling you what apps you’re allowed to install on your own damn device.

Steve Jobs = inventor of computing as a prison, glad he’s gone. (to quote Stallman)[/quote]

pretty sure Apple is in cupertino….[/quote]
Pretty sure there are plenty of Apple folks in Palo Alto, too, but we get your point.

I was an early Apple adopter, and over time I came to hate how constrictive – restrictive – opaque the Apple mindset is.

I despise iTunes. I can’t stand how everything is closed off, locked up, sealed away. I buy my music from Amazon and I know I have an MP3 that I can do whatever I want with.

I inherited a super duper iMac. Because we don’t have the password, it has been crippled for over a year and a half. My kid took it to a Genius, who couldn’t figure out how to restore the OS. Technicians can’t figure it out. It’s insane.

But Apple is obviously onto something, and that’s that a very large percentage of the computer using public wants, needs for it to be deeply simplified, and I can’t argue with that.

By the way, our fellow accused of hatemongering didn’t say he is glad Steve Jobs is dead; he said he’s glad he’s gone. There’s a big difference. If you want to see the essence of all that is wrong with Steve Jobs, look in the wayback machine at NeXT computer. Only a loon like Jobs would hand you a chunk of obsidian and tell you to go do stuff with it.