--- In [email protected], Guy Morton <g...@...> wrote: > > On 01/05/2010, at 1:54 PM, Amy wrote: > > It may be low, but there's a certain amount of logic to it, considering > > when Steve Jobs was out, he was given a liver transplant. In ancient times, > > the liver was considered to be the seat of anger. MPO is that there's been > > a lot of angry behavior coming out of Apple lately, and not just aimed at > > Adobe. > > > I'd say the anger has almost uniformly been directed *at* Apple (and Jobs). > Re-read his article....there are no angry words there. > > People who don't like Apple tend to see everything Apple does as an attack on > them and their choices, but it's like the egocentric person who thinks > everything is about them - Apple can be acting in their own interests and not > in yours *without* wishing *you* harm. > > I don't see Apple lining people up and forcing them to buy iPods, iPads, > iPhones or iMacs, so, y'know, people can and will vote with their feet if > Apple does stuff they don't like. For me, not supporting Flash on iP*s > doesn't outweigh the other good things about the platform and devices, and I > like the new emphasis on supporting web standards.
Where have you been, with his fights with almost everyone, from HTC to Gizmodo's editor? I also don't see Apple's anti-competitive practices as "none of my business," just like it wasn't "none of our business" that big banks were selling toxic assets to their clients. No one was lining people up forcing them to take out mortgages they couldn't afford, and no one was lining people up forcing investors to buy securities based on those mortgages, but a lot of people who didn't choose to do either wound up paying the price. MPO is that if too many developers jump on the Apple boat, they could wind up choking off parts of the market that I believe will be better for everyone (and certainly me) if they succeed. I'm not going to sit around on my hands and not try to prevent that, to whatever extent I can. http://www.insideria.com/2010/04/what-bugs-me-about-apple.html -Amy
