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This is how I see all the Cory Doctorow/BoingBoing fear mongering. He's made a career out of scaring people and being as disingenious as possible, but because h

This is how I see all the Cory Doctorow/BoingBoing fear mongering. He's made a career out of scaring people and being as disingenious as possible, but because he picks on "the man" the typical college/highschool types praise him as some sort of freedom fighter. Internet fandom really deserves better heroes. The EFF itself is almost as bad and is run by seemingly the most paranoid and reactionary people out there. I imagine their hearts are in the right place but angry and poorly sourced hit pieces hurt their reputation. >Then don't even buy Apple. They've been locked down in so many other ways for a long time. Once in a while my Nexus will piss me off, but then I remember what the realistic alternatives are. I do like Apple products, but the lock-downs become a hassle. I can't imagine having to carry around yet more adapters for them. The market probably won't even punish them as the Apple brand is so strong and BT headphones so common, that it'll just royally piss off only a very small percentage of buyers. They're welcome to buy a Nexus/Pixel/Whatever. Apple isn't changing its ways for us. That's fine because we have a choice in mobile OS's.

AceJohnny2 10y ago
> This is how I see all the Cory Doctorow/BoingBoing fear mongering. Sigh. I like Cory Doctorow, I agree with the principle of the battles he's fighting, but yeah. He's... strident.
astrodust 10y ago
What would Cory do without Apple to hate on? I worry about the guy. Nobody's forcing you to buy an iPhone 7. Nobody's taking away all your analog ports. It's like the NRA here getting all up in arms because someone had the audacity to declare a gun free zone in a school which impinges on their freedoms. Seriously, get a grip Cory. You're free to criticize Apple's decisions but don't make it out like Apple's destroying the world. It's never been easier to make your own phone. If Cory and the EFF were really interested in changing the world they'd go and make an open-source, open-hardware smart phone so they had something to point to when people are feeling cheated by companies like Apple.
- AceJohnny2 10y ago
  Note that, while this article cites Cory, it wasn't written by him.
- smacktoward 10y ago
  > Nobody's taking away all your analog ports. Yet. Let's talk again in 12 or 24 months, when all the other manufacturers have done their usual thing of stampeding blindly to ape whatever Apple's done lately. > It's never been easier to make your own phone. Making a phone is the easy part. Getting permission to use that phone on closed, proprietary networks controlled entirely by a giant telcos who have absolutely no interest in letting you do so, on the other hand...
  - astrodust 10y ago
    > Yet. You'll have nobody to blame but the other vendors, and I think they'd be stupid to follow Apple here. The answer to headphones that Apple has now is the Lightning connector/adapter plus their wireless solution. Other companies have nothing. Can USB-C do the job? Do they have a wireless standard they can all agree on? I have my doubts. > Getting the telcos... They have no say in it. You can use an unlocked phone on any network you want. You can already build your own phone with a Rasperry Pi and a GSM module. There's really nothing they can do. They won't sell it in their retail stores, that's a huge barrier, but not if you don't care.
- jshevek 10y ago
  This reads like an effort to invalidate someone else's ideas, concerns, and criticisms by trivializing them and presupposing their motives.
  - tjic 10y ago
    Yes, I agree. And I think it does it well. Cory Doctorow is a self promoting fear monger, and I think it's a useful addition to the conversation to make that clear. It lets people calibrate their outrage over his most recent pronouncement.

AceJohnny2 10y ago

> This is how I see all the Cory Doctorow/BoingBoing fear mongering. Sigh. I like Cory Doctorow, I agree with the principle of the battles he's fighting, but yeah. He's... strident.

astrodust 10y ago

What would Cory do without Apple to hate on? I worry about the guy. Nobody's forcing you to buy an iPhone 7. Nobody's taking away all your analog ports. It's like the NRA here getting all up in arms because someone had the audacity to declare a gun free zone in a school which impinges on their freedoms. Seriously, get a grip Cory. You're free to criticize Apple's decisions but don't make it out like Apple's destroying the world. It's never been easier to make your own phone. If Cory and the EFF were really interested in changing the world they'd go and make an open-source, open-hardware smart phone so they had something to point to when people are feeling cheated by companies like Apple.

AceJohnny2 10y ago
Note that, while this article cites Cory, it wasn't written by him.
smacktoward 10y ago
> Nobody's taking away all your analog ports. Yet. Let's talk again in 12 or 24 months, when all the other manufacturers have done their usual thing of stampeding blindly to ape whatever Apple's done lately. > It's never been easier to make your own phone. Making a phone is the easy part. Getting permission to use that phone on closed, proprietary networks controlled entirely by a giant telcos who have absolutely no interest in letting you do so, on the other hand...
- astrodust 10y ago
  > Yet. You'll have nobody to blame but the other vendors, and I think they'd be stupid to follow Apple here. The answer to headphones that Apple has now is the Lightning connector/adapter plus their wireless solution. Other companies have nothing. Can USB-C do the job? Do they have a wireless standard they can all agree on? I have my doubts. > Getting the telcos... They have no say in it. You can use an unlocked phone on any network you want. You can already build your own phone with a Rasperry Pi and a GSM module. There's really nothing they can do. They won't sell it in their retail stores, that's a huge barrier, but not if you don't care.
jshevek 10y ago
This reads like an effort to invalidate someone else's ideas, concerns, and criticisms by trivializing them and presupposing their motives.
- tjic 10y ago
  Yes, I agree. And I think it does it well. Cory Doctorow is a self promoting fear monger, and I think it's a useful addition to the conversation to make that clear. It lets people calibrate their outrage over his most recent pronouncement.