Dear Mr. Jobs, I have been willing to become an Apple customer for some years now, and I've received the news of the release of the iPhone 3G with a lot of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, despite my interest with Apple products in general and even if I was contemplating the purchase, I'm afraid I won't buy the iPhone. Why should I spend several hundred euros to buy a phone which is advertised as the coolest of them all and as "the phone that has changed phones forever" but is not even able to let me play free media formats and doesn't let me use free software and won't even let me copy and paste text from e-mails - did they tell you that ? Why should I support a product that drives control over their devices away from users, forcing developers to pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone's iPhones? let's do like this, you give me a DRM protected phone and i give you HRM (human rights management) protected euros. you cannot use my money in countries where human rights are not fulfilled (for example china). If you accept my money you must close all apple facilities in any country enforcing death penalty... included USA, it's for your security! You claim these (anti)features are necessary for "security"; but the point is: whose security? Mine? Or yours (i.e. being sure the way I will use my iPhone won't go against your profit motive and the profit motives of your business partners)? didn't you, your business partners and your shareholders just had enough? do you want more? do you feed on it? I want that it's me who have control over what I can and can't run on my phone, not you. Do you do this for my "security"? No thanks. You're too "kind" but I'd rather take the risk. or we can trade control over my device with control over the money i give you for it. by the way, have you ever tasted your own medicine? Best regards. BlackAidoru -- Black Aidoru "Tutti hanno diritto ai propri 15 minuti di banda larga al giorno" "Everybody deserves his/her 15 minutes of broadband daily" _______________________________________________ ml mailing list [email protected] http://nalug.net/mailman/listinfo/ml
