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Just started http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ It's about time.

by quink 14y ago

iamdave 14y ago
I realize this has been a community for less than an hour, but eight submissions on the front page of that are single-serving, meme/image macro photos. Just my opinion, but maybe spend these starting hours educating people about the boycott and save the cute photos for later?
- quink 14y ago
  I know that Hacker News has that 'go, fix it before I care' mentality, i.e. usually someone submits an article they have written or a product they have on Hacker News. But this is reddit, so feel free to submit whatever you have in mind, and there's only so much time I'm going to put into this. Beyond that, 8/21 isn't that bad considering it's reddit we're talking about.
slater 14y ago
No, it's not.
- baq 14y ago
  Yeah, way too late.
deleted 14y ago
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taligent 14y ago
I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Because their FRAND abuses are 1000x worse than what Apple and Microsoft have been doing. When you have governments (FTC, EU) and non-mobile companies (Intel, HP, Cisco etc) complaining you know it's something serious.
- quink 14y ago
  > I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google Authenticator. I use DuckDuckGo, but still acknowledge that Google are a company that knows how to put things together. They do charity, contribute greatly to open source, help endangered languages and at least seem to have a bit more of a conscience. HTC has taken the mobile phone and turned it into something a great deal better. I don't own any of their products, but I can honestly say that my mobile is better because of them. I'll now let you compare all this to my experiences with Apple over the past two, three years: http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_personal_motivation_for_hating_on_apple_beyond/ http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_perso...
  - taligent 14y ago
    Okay. Do you use Netflix or Hulu, own a Canon camera, play on your Nintendo, watch TV on your LG, use Skype to chat, connect with Facebook, edit home movies using Adobe Premiere ? Because Google/Motorola could stop ALL of that and so much more.
    - possibilistic 14y ago
      But they haven't. Apple is the one making the move here. Let's not forget that.
      - raganesh 14y ago
        Not true. Google/Motorola got an injunction against a few Apple products in Germany, a few months back. Apple had to disable push mail feature on its iCloud service, in Germany, to get the products back to market.
    - quink 14y ago
gshakir 14y ago
Google would do the same if they were in Apple's position. So boycotting does not make sense.
weiran 14y ago
It's about time someone made a subreddit where all the links and almost all the comments are submitted by themselves. Not to mention most of the links are months old and hyperbolic rather than factual.

Just started http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ It's about time.

by quink 14y ago

Just started http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ http://www.reddit.com/r/boycottapple/ It's about time.

I realize this has been a community for less than an hour, but eight submissions on the front page of that are single-serving, meme/image macro photos. Just my opinion, but maybe spend these starting hours educating people about the boycott and save the cute photos for later?

quink 14y ago
I know that Hacker News has that 'go, fix it before I care' mentality, i.e. usually someone submits an article they have written or a product they have on Hacker News. But this is reddit, so feel free to submit whatever you have in mind, and there's only so much time I'm going to put into this. Beyond that, 8/21 isn't that bad considering it's reddit we're talking about.

slater 14y ago

No, it's not.

baq 14y ago
Yeah, way too late.

deleted 14y ago

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taligent 14y ago

I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Because their FRAND abuses are 1000x worse than what Apple and Microsoft have been doing. When you have governments (FTC, EU) and non-mobile companies (Intel, HP, Cisco etc) complaining you know it's something serious.

quink 14y ago
> I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ? Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google Authenticator. I use DuckDuckGo, but still acknowledge that Google are a company that knows how to put things together. They do charity, contribute greatly to open source, help endangered languages and at least seem to have a bit more of a conscience. HTC has taken the mobile phone and turned it into something a great deal better. I don't own any of their products, but I can honestly say that my mobile is better because of them. I'll now let you compare all this to my experiences with Apple over the past two, three years: http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_personal_motivation_for_hating_on_apple_beyond/ http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_perso...
- taligent 14y ago
  Okay. Do you use Netflix or Hulu, own a Canon camera, play on your Nintendo, watch TV on your LG, use Skype to chat, connect with Facebook, edit home movies using Adobe Premiere ? Because Google/Motorola could stop ALL of that and so much more.
  - possibilistic 14y ago
    But they haven't. Apple is the one making the move here. Let's not forget that.
    - raganesh 14y ago
      Not true. Google/Motorola got an injunction against a few Apple products in Germany, a few months back. Apple had to disable push mail feature on its iCloud service, in Germany, to get the products back to market.
  - quink 14y ago

gshakir 14y ago

Google would do the same if they were in Apple's position. So boycotting does not make sense.

weiran 14y ago

It's about time someone made a subreddit where all the links and almost all the comments are submitted by themselves. Not to mention most of the links are months old and hyperbolic rather than factual.