Apple's Trademark BanHammer

Full article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111022/01124516464/apple-continues-to-insist-only-it-can-use-apple-logo-threatens-small-german-cafe.shtml

Not a day goes by without us hearing about yet another lawsuit from Apple suing some poor company for trademark violation. It does not matter how remotely similar they are and it does not matter. So one has to wonder whether Apple is being very unreasonable in pursuing trademark claims.

Serving at the Pleasure of the King

Full Story: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the-king.html

Excerpt from the article:

As a consumer, I like that Apple is perfectly willing to throw its software developers under a bus to protect me (or, more cynically, Apple itself). But as a software developer, I'm not sure I can cope with that and I am unlikely to ever develop anything for an iOS device as a result. If you choose to deliver software in the Apple ecosystem, this is simply the tradeoff you've chosen to make. Apple developers serve at the pleasure of the king.

This is why I don't have any iDevices in my home and I request that you too as well. It is a matter of principles and I really do not want to make things worse than it is now. "Short Live The King"