Treaos Serrare said:
Apple is saying Amazon is trying to have or has a monopolistic hold on ANYTHING?! that's so sad its fucking pathetic, Apple has tried to monopolize every single business it has muscled into. I-tunes is a fucking travesty as is the entire I-scheme of file-types and proprietary bullshit but everybody has just lapped that shit up from its inception, just like they clamor to buy the latest in a line of homogenized poorly constructed and designed products because they are sleek or trendy. Never mind the fact that each "NEW" version of the I-whatever is the same fucking thing as the last one with minor tweaks or changes but costs double the standing or original price of its predecessor.
Which is the same thing Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. all try to do (and in some instances, have done). It's okay for them to do it; it's just normal business. However, if Apple does it, it's an act of evil and deserving of full hatred.
I understand people hate Apple, but, in my opinion, it would be so much better if people just left it at that and stop trying to put some "logical", "rational" reason to it. Every time people try to put such reasons to their hatred of Apple, they just sound inconsistent, hypocritical, or just plain silly; for example, the whole Foxconn blow-up in which it was shown Apple was actually the
ONLY company that was trying to do something, anything at all, to improve working conditions, while all other companies were silent and doing nothing, except HP, which actually stated officially that they did not like Apple trying to improve Chinese worker conditions because it could cause HP's own costs to increase (but, that little tidbit got completely ignored by all the haters).
Yeah, I agree that Apple is completely in the wrong on this one (all they needed to do was remove that one single clause in their policy), but don't think for one second that every other company out there isn't trying to do all the same sorts of things; they just have differing levels of success and availability of moments of opportunity.