--- On Wed, 9/30/09, charlie derr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> > Macs rock. It's hard to say bad things about them,
Oh, I dunno. Let me try a few:
> DRM is the scourge of the earth and it's so embedded into
You touched right at the core of my dissatisfaction.
[ahem]
Apple is touted by every dread-locked artist as this touchy-feeling Love Bug
commune that grows computers using only organic whole-grain fiber drawn
directly from the souls of baby Care Bears, when in reality it is the most
insidiously controlling Mega Corp Corp. ever Fausted onto the backs of the
Working Man! ("preach!")
Just three weeks ago I bought my first piece of Apple gear since my old Apple
IIc - an iPhone. Full of the joi d'vivre of new gadgetdom I configured a thing
or two and went to download some of those cool apps I had heard so much
about...
...almost. OK, so it needed me to create an iTunes account. Something I had
avoided like the plague for as long as the awful repository existed, but now I
have no choice so I'll put my damn info in...
...almost. Apparently you really can't create an iTunes account through your
iPhone, though it makes you think you can. So, fine, I'll fire up the laptop
and plug in the aircard and go to the iTunes and plug in all my personal and
financial info. Why should Apple be the only people not to have it? And since
I'm just going to experiment and download a bunch of free apps it's not like
they are going to be charging my credit card...
...almost. Just got my bill, and it seems that Apple charges $1 for each
"free" app an Apple iPhone user downloads from the Apple iTunes Internal
Revenue Ser... - er - store.
God, Apple sure is so cool!! Just makes me feel like putting on some tie-dye,
burning some incense, lighting up a bong and sticking it *right* to The Man!
I'll be right back, I need to go throw a brick through the window of some Big
Corporate douche executive (anyone know which one is Jobs' office?).
-chris
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