I already did. But by "bad behavior" I mean "the company he was in charge of pulled off some incredible dickery". Being CEO, and being actively involved in a lot of these things, I'm pretty sure you can lay responsibility at his feet. Anyway, I'll just list the stuff right here, to make it clearer to anyone browsing the thread. Please beari n mind I'm quoting this from another source which already wrote all this.
1 Insane DRM
Apple are fairly well-known for their advocay of strict DRM on digital music, even though some statistics have shown that DRM, predictably, has no effect on piracy.
But here I'm gonna refer to the fact that Apple seem to be concerned with Digital Rights Management in regards to the software you run on your own goddamn gadgets. Buying an iPod touch or an iPhone from Apple and then using it how oyu please is apparently undesirable.
Cracking either of these devices in order to run whatever you want on the hardware you payed for which came with software you also payed for but do not want is, for some mad reason, not allowed. Attempting to do what you want with a product you own can result in a total lockdown, as Apple released updates that can identify cracked devices when connected to the internet and will automatically download themselves onto these devices in order to prevent the user from doing as they please with something they payed for, even if it is perfectly innocuous.
2 Overzealous use of... well, lawyers.
A tech Blogger named Jason O'grady posted some inside information he got a hold of on the internet regarding an Apple product. Apple, being reasonable and easygoing folks, they imediately subpoenaed his Internet Service Provider, tried to take down his website and also subpoeanaed O'Grady himself in order to find out how he got the info. O'Grady tried to get the Electronic Frontier Foundation involved, which started a whole mess of legal problems which grew bigger and bigger until it hit the state appeals court and a judge ordered Apple andJobs to cut that shit out.
Oh, and the product he leaked info on was a Garageband Firewire breakout Box, whatever the fuck that is. Not actually that surprising, when you consider the fact that Apple order their product-testers to cover up devices with cloaks even when working on them, and to turn on a red light whenever the products are uncovered to want everyone to be extra-careful.
3 The fate of the possible iPhone leak
OK, so protecting their products with secrecy may seem fair enough on paper. So it's not surprising that the possible iPhone leak, Sun Danyong, an engineer responsible for prototype work on the iPhone, was in deep sit when he accidentally lost one of the prototypes. Apple dropped the hammer on the company he worked for, who were responsible for aiding Apple's work on the iPhone, so they made his life hell. I'm not sure how bad, exactly, but this young family man threw himself from the 12th floor of his apartment building soon after.
4 Apple hates competition
Any application released via the Apple App store that duplicates the functionality of Apple or AT&T products gets the banhammer, even if it does a better job of it. This anti-competetive nature has resulted in an investigation by the FCC
5 Ad-related Supervilliany
Apple faced backlash over including their Safari browser with iTunes updates. After rescinding this... they put the Application
MobileMe into another update and released it. Internet Watchdog groups accused Apple of even spreading Malware.
Anyway, after the dust had settled, an outline of a new Apple application arrived at the U.S. Patent Office. Apple's words:
"Apple can further determine whether a user pays attention to the advertisement. The determination can include performing, while the advertisement is presented, an operation that urges the user to respond; and detecting whether the user responds to the performed operation. If the response is inappropriate or nonexistent, the system will go into lock down mode in some form or other until the user complies. In the case of an iPod, the sound could be disconnected rendering it useless until compliance is met. For the iPhone, no calls will be able to be made or received."
Yeah. Jobs' name was attatched to that.
Anyway, I won't bother talking about the cold hard fact that none of the prices Apple charges for their products are reasonable, you probably already heard that one before.
I also never said fanboyism is exclusive to Apple, that's not my point. My point was that Apple charges more than their products are worth. I don't care how people view this, it's not acceptable, regardless of what OTHER companies are doing (although your examples constitute unnacceptable bullshit from those companies too, I wasn't dismissing that claim at all).
Mr.PlanetEater said:
Pray tell, do you happen to carry around your entire musical library in your pocket? Do you own a phone that is essentially a miniature computer? If you answered yes to either of those, then you ought to show a bit more respect for the death of the man who made that possible/viable.
That's a claim you may as well have carved onto the side of a solid block of horseshit with a knife made out of the sharpened bones of the tooth fairy and delivered to us in our gumdrop houses in Narnia via a flying pig, for all the credibility and factual content it has.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and Child labour was used at factories that built Apple products. Factories at which working conditions are, predictably, unbearably awful. Also, The company that enginner I mentioned worked for? they later worked a "no suicide" clause into their terms of employment contracts. Apple admitted all of this, it didn't just come to light. They knew about this shit happening.
