> It is Apple who pioneered this concept of the device that the user really does not own or control - the "smartphone". Oh bullshit! Microsoft and other compan

> It is Apple who pioneered this concept of the device that the user really does not own or control - the "smartphone". Oh bullshit! Microsoft and other companies shipped user-hostile EULAs for years before smartphones existed (let alone the iPhone). These shrink-wrap licenses used this concept for years, and there were probably others before them.