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"Apple replaced one evil (carrier control) with another evil (maker control)." Do you think it's evil that Sony controls the Playstation? Or that Tivo controls
by jad 16y ago
"Apple replaced one evil (carrier control) with another evil (maker control)."
Do you think it's evil that Sony controls the Playstation? Or that Tivo controls the Tivo box?
"Consumer choice and empowerment is mighty nice."
Does consumer choice have to be limited to choosing from within the Android ecosystem? Are you saying the very existence of the iPhone somehow inhibits consumer choice?
As for the rest (except the personal attacks), sure. I think competition is great. I definitely do not want Apple to have monopoly control over the market. I don't want Google or Microsoft to have that control, either. And above all else I want the carriers to have as little control as possible. I would vastly prefer Comcast-style dump pipes for my wireless Internet access.
Everything doesn't have to be black versus white, us versus them. You may hate Apple, or the iPhone, or Steve Jobs, or whatever, but that doesn't mean Google does everything right, or that they never sacrifice consumer interests for their own.
- ergo98 16y ago>You may hate Apple, or the iPhone, or Steve Jobs, or whatever, but that doesn't mean Google does everything right, or that they never sacrifice consumer interests for their own. What a weird perspective. Do you think I hate Apple, or Steve Jobs, or the iPhone. Alternately do you think I love Google? I think you're the one who sees it in black and white. However, let's go back- >Do you think it's evil that Sony controls the Playstation? Or that Tivo controls the Tivo box? Interesting that you mention that, because the post that I countered supposed that Android was undoing the good that Apple was doing -- essentially that Android is an evil competitor to the all-good Apple that was poised to bring us Utopia. The iPhone is a great phone. It, nor any single corporation, should not dominate, however. We played that monopoly game before, through a little company named Microsoft, and we should have learned our lessons. I hope that Windows Mobile and RIM's latest launch a serious assault, now that Android essentially opened the opportunity for them (in the same way that Firefox opened the opportunity for Safari and Chrome and various other browsers).
- InclinedPlane 16y ago"Do you think it's evil that Sony controls the Playstation? Or that Tivo controls the Tivo box?" I would hesitate to use the word "evil" in this context, however I think it's critical to differentiate between gaming and entertainment devices on the one hand and communication devices on the other. One company having utter control over the means many people use to communicate privately and publicly vs. one company having utter control over the means many people use for some forms of recreation leads to hugely different consequences.