And people say Microsoft are anti-competitive ...

[Mark]

... which they are, of course. But so are Apple (as if iTunes Music Store weren't proof enough already of this fact ):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7011772.stm

[orbital]

This article I read a few weeks ago is basically saying the same thing as well:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136949-c,companynews/article.html

[BachQ]

Refresh my memory: why do I want/need an iPhone?

[The Emperor]

iiphoneeeeeee! IPHONE! (flashback from one ep. of the daily show eheh)

[DavidW]

Refresh my memory: why do I want/need an iPhone?

I think the iphone is for the metrosexual yuppie.  

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7017660.stm

"Some owners are reporting on technology blogs and Apple's own forums that the update is deleting contacts information, as well as photos and music, on iPhones that have not been modified in any way."

[Mark]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7017660.stm

"Some owners are reporting on technology blogs and Apple's own forums that the update is deleting contacts information, as well as photos and music, on iPhones that have not been modified in any way."

Apple not the Great White Saviour after all. Big surprise ...

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Apple not the Great White Saviour after all. Big surprise ...

CNN: There are now unconfirmed reports that Steve Jobs' sh!t actually does smell.

[Mark]

CNN: There are now unconfirmed reports that Steve Jobs' sh!t actually does smell.

What makes me laugh till I cry is that for the past ten years, I've had to suffer fanboys telling me how Apple weren't like those big corporate nasties at Microsoft. They were 'for the people', or so I was told. They wouldn't sell out or go all big business. Yeah, right. Some folks are just wilfully blind to the realities of the corporate world.

[DavidW]

What makes me laugh till I cry is that for the past ten years, I've had to suffer fanboys telling me how Apple weren't like those big corporate nasties at Microsoft. They were 'for the people', or so I was told. They wouldn't sell out or go all big business. Yeah, right. Some folks are just wilfully blind to the realities of the corporate world.

Sometimes Apple acts worse than MS.  Did you know that when people tried to find help on video cards not working on their Macs, Apple IT decided to simply delete the threads because it made them look bad?  That's not even in the realm of providing unhelpful advise (like we were discussing on the other thread), it's being evil instead.

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Honestly, most of the mac people I've encountered seem a bit like religious zealots --unwilling to admit that their beloved machines and their god STeve jobs are anything less than 100% perfect. All the problems in the computing world issue, it seems from Microsoft and Bill Gates. Is your brand new Mac dead right out of the box (two of the six G5s we bought a couple years ago)? It's surely Microsoft's fault!!!

[Mark]

Honestly, most of the mac people I've encountered seem a bit like religious zealots --unwilling to admit that their beloved machines and their god STeve jobs are anything less than 100% perfect. All the problems in the computing world issue, it seems from Microsoft and Bill Gates.

Tragic, but true.