Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Sep 2011 21:47 UTC

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RE[2]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by UltraZelda64 on Fri 2nd Sep 2011 23:32
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Very true. I just don't get what his fascination with Apple is. I think we all get it by now (except for the many clueless Apple fans out there), they're the equivalent of Microsoft just a decade (or less) ago when it comes to disgusting business (and legal) practices. Does anyone really care any more? Just boycott their damn products! Easy for me to do, considering I never bought a single Apple product in my life and therefore never had the chance to be locked into it or their furious OS update release cycle ($$$).
Hopefully Steve Jobs' successor runs the business into the ground. I've been waiting for him to quit and the company to eventually start its inevitable downward fall.
Edited 2011-09-02 23:36 UTC
RE[3]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by WorknMan on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 08:53
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Very true. I just don't get what his fascination with Apple is.
It's not really a fascination with Apple, but he's more of a 'corporate watchdog', if you will. Meaning, he feels like it is his responsibility to report to the rest of us every time he discovers that a tech company is behaving badly. You know, like maybe how your little sister would run and tattle on you when you were younger, if she caught you looking at dirty magazines.
Not that there's not a need for this kind of thing, but for people like me who hate politics, it's goddamn annoying to see this bullshit on technology blogs, instead of political blogs, where it belongs.
Edited 2011-09-03 08:55 UTC
RE[3]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by Lennie on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 13:04
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RE[2]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 2nd Sep 2011 23:52
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RE[2]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by JAlexoid on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 09:26
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RE[3]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by WorknMan on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 13:27
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Are you one of those people that think that tech is isolated from the rest of the world? Politics do have an effect on tech. Law does affect tech. And since tech is everywhere today, a lot of things have an affect on tech...
Sure, a lot of things have an effect on tech, but a lot of the crap that gets posted here and elsewhere (like this very article) has nothing whatsoever to do with tech.
Ok, to be fair this article may have a VERY lose association with the iPhone 5 prototype, for which absolutely no information was given. The only reason Thom posted it is to offer up a rant about a possible illegal search of somebody's home that took place.
Was the rant justified on this site? Well, if this had been Toyota losing a new car prototype and two of their employees did a (possible) illegal search in somebody's garage, would it belong on a car enthusiast website, especially when no new information on the model (which everybody knew was coming out soon anyway) was learned from the story?
RE[2]: Hope the company gets their crooked asses busted.
by Lennie on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 13:03
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No, it would just require people like Thom to stop turning sites like OSNews into their own personal, political blogs, and stop posting articles that have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with tech. Obviously, this is a case for the authorities to deal with, and only showed up here because it involves Apple.