Suppose you are carpenter and the producer wants 30% of all the profit you make with it. I think you wouldn't call yourself a loser, for it doesn't make sense. If you listen to your favorite radio station, you don't expect it either, that suddenly it is not possible anymore, for the broadcaster doesn't have a contact with the brand of you radio. You would make a statement about your legal rights. Apple is exactly doing this. It shuts off what they don't like, not asking what you would like.
Kindle has it's own tablet and is owned by Amazon. Apple knows that sometimes it's better to hold your fire, if your opponent creates so much sympathy of the consumer, that it endangers you own product. Apple doesn't like Kindle, but it is just too big to swallow. The iFlowreader company was an easy target. Simply changing rules and have an army of lawyers ready ordered shoot to kill. The lawmakers can't keep up with this new form of couthouse economics.
Please let's be reasonable here. We, consumers tend to talk more and more to act like market analysts. In the mean time we are on the brink to become figurants in a world of "Umbrella" companies that act like locust in our economies. It won't take long before we need an Itunes account to be connected to the Apple Ecg monitor in a hospital. Apple is the evangelist that likes to promise you their heaven, be you feel like to have entered their hell. Apple eats competitors and consumes our freedom. It is gong to be so global that no politics seem to have any control over it. We honored Steve J. as a cyber messias, but are we really sure that we have not legalized cyber marketing Apple way. Freedom of choice is better than freedom the Apple way. I like the product, not the principle.
As an European I think that you Americans really go crazy. First you go after the moslims, then you exclude Europeans and now you are haunting eachother. It is not showing content on Youtube that endangers the world. You Americans are. You have a dangerous form of paranoia. Don't forget one thing. Youtube made a lot of performers only more famous and even forgotten performers attractive again. Remember USA, you don't own the internet!!!
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Re: Re: LOL ... total loser move
I forgot the carpenter's hammer...
Re: LOL ... total loser move
Suppose you are carpenter and the producer wants 30% of all the profit you make with it. I think you wouldn't call yourself a loser, for it doesn't make sense. If you listen to your favorite radio station, you don't expect it either, that suddenly it is not possible anymore, for the broadcaster doesn't have a contact with the brand of you radio. You would make a statement about your legal rights. Apple is exactly doing this. It shuts off what they don't like, not asking what you would like.
Re: Reality check
Kindle has it's own tablet and is owned by Amazon. Apple knows that sometimes it's better to hold your fire, if your opponent creates so much sympathy of the consumer, that it endangers you own product. Apple doesn't like Kindle, but it is just too big to swallow. The iFlowreader company was an easy target. Simply changing rules and have an army of lawyers ready ordered shoot to kill. The lawmakers can't keep up with this new form of couthouse economics.
Welcome to the future
Please let's be reasonable here. We, consumers tend to talk more and more to act like market analysts. In the mean time we are on the brink to become figurants in a world of "Umbrella" companies that act like locust in our economies. It won't take long before we need an Itunes account to be connected to the Apple Ecg monitor in a hospital. Apple is the evangelist that likes to promise you their heaven, be you feel like to have entered their hell. Apple eats competitors and consumes our freedom. It is gong to be so global that no politics seem to have any control over it. We honored Steve J. as a cyber messias, but are we really sure that we have not legalized cyber marketing Apple way. Freedom of choice is better than freedom the Apple way. I like the product, not the principle.
In Europe we are excluded from quite a lot of Youtube content
As an European I think that you Americans really go crazy. First you go after the moslims, then you exclude Europeans and now you are haunting eachother. It is not showing content on Youtube that endangers the world. You Americans are. You have a dangerous form of paranoia. Don't forget one thing. Youtube made a lot of performers only more famous and even forgotten performers attractive again. Remember USA, you don't own the internet!!!