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No shit.[1] "Apple. Your brand is being ruined by misplaced trust in a losing super-aggressive legal strategy." I genuinely used to like Apple. I can actually

No shit.[1] "Apple. Your brand is being ruined by misplaced trust in a losing super-aggressive legal strategy." I genuinely used to like Apple. I can actually remember regularly checking the website for the different gadgets I could buy. This was well before the Android v Apple "fan-boyism". I switched off totally from the anti-consumerism that drives Apple. They make great devices that just work. I have no problems in borrowing an iPad for an hour, but they consistently take strategies beyond their products that have decremental effects to their customers and customers of other companies. Who needs a third adapter for their phone (that will only work on iPhone5)? Who needs a different form factor for their SIM card so Apple can secure three year licencing deals with carriers? Who needs the walled garden of an App Store that prevents developers from releasing Apps that might cross over with iOS functionality... Who needs to write a book on Apple Software where the terms demand that they only distribute the book on Apple platforms[2].. Put honestly, there is very little that Apple does that could be interpreted as being for the "better-ment" of people that aren't Apple customers. They take a "fuck"[1] everyone attitude that isn't a beneficiary of Apple stock. I just think that this is a very toxic label for Apple to have against them. Just to stress... I think Apple make great products, although I will never again contribute a single cent to anything that bears the Apple name. They have all but destroyed their brand that I once so sorely coveted (and this was a time not so long ago). Who needs humility... Clearly, not Apple... [1] : I hate swearing. Apologies. [2] : This got changed shortly after considerable backlash. [9] : I need to stop writing so many "Apple" critical comments.. If you look through any of my last 50 comments I'd guess perhaps 10 are Apple related. It's wrong of me that I consistently only comment on Apple posts.

jrockway 14y ago
I was the same way until one day, I tried to run gdb on iTunes, and gdb segfaulted. I did some research and found that Apple added extra code to the OS just to prevent someone from doing exactly that. They spent additional engineering effort just to lock me out of my own computer. (I still wonder what data collection they were trying to hide.) Anyway, that was the day I deleted OS X and switched back to Linux forever. (I even ran Rockbox on my iPod until I replaced it with a $30 Sansa device with 10x the features.)
- majke 14y ago
  > I tried to run gdb on iTunes, and gdb segfaulted. Whoo, any links please? I'd like gdb to crash on my programs as well!
  - malandrew 14y ago
    For the naive: why?
    - lazugod 14y ago
      To learn.
      - malandrew 14y ago
        Oh, I thought you may have a specific reason for causing gdb to segfault on your app.
  - comex 14y ago
    Call ptrace with PT_DENY_ATTACH (it's actually documented).
    - tedunangst 14y ago
      Besides Apple's nefarious Dr. Evil world domination uses, it can also be used to protect programs from each other. If your browser denies ptrace, it will prevent rogue programs from reading your passwords out of its memory.
      - comex 14y ago
        Not really, since a program wanting to circumvent it can just attach before the call is made, or use other mechanisms to read process memory.
        tedunangst 14y ago
comex 14y ago
For the record, the iBooks Author thing was more a clarification than a change; you still can't sell the main exported .ibooks format outside of the iBookstore, but you can do what you want with the source files or files exported in other formats.
olgeni 14y ago
> They make great devices that just work. After learning that the App Store actually uses Spotlight (!) to find out what's in /Applications, and that sometimes you need to reindex to get an upgrade, or change permissions set by App Store itself, I'm not so sure. And after seeing what iOS 6 did to my battery life, I'm even less sure...

jrockway 14y ago

I was the same way until one day, I tried to run gdb on iTunes, and gdb segfaulted. I did some research and found that Apple added extra code to the OS just to prevent someone from doing exactly that. They spent additional engineering effort just to lock me out of my own computer. (I still wonder what data collection they were trying to hide.) Anyway, that was the day I deleted OS X and switched back to Linux forever. (I even ran Rockbox on my iPod until I replaced it with a $30 Sansa device with 10x the features.)

majke 14y ago
> I tried to run gdb on iTunes, and gdb segfaulted. Whoo, any links please? I'd like gdb to crash on my programs as well!
- malandrew 14y ago
  For the naive: why?
  - lazugod 14y ago
    To learn.
    - malandrew 14y ago
      Oh, I thought you may have a specific reason for causing gdb to segfault on your app.
- comex 14y ago
  Call ptrace with PT_DENY_ATTACH (it's actually documented).
  - tedunangst 14y ago
    Besides Apple's nefarious Dr. Evil world domination uses, it can also be used to protect programs from each other. If your browser denies ptrace, it will prevent rogue programs from reading your passwords out of its memory.
    - comex 14y ago
      Not really, since a program wanting to circumvent it can just attach before the call is made, or use other mechanisms to read process memory.
      - tedunangst 14y ago

comex 14y ago

For the record, the iBooks Author thing was more a clarification than a change; you still can't sell the main exported .ibooks format outside of the iBookstore, but you can do what you want with the source files or files exported in other formats.

olgeni 14y ago

> They make great devices that just work. After learning that the App Store actually uses Spotlight (!) to find out what's in /Applications, and that sometimes you need to reindex to get an upgrade, or change permissions set by App Store itself, I'm not so sure. And after seeing what iOS 6 did to my battery life, I'm even less sure...