Your iPhone is less reliable than your Andriod Phone

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-crash-more-than-android-a-data-dive/

Apple has always done a pretty good job of creating the perception that its products are more secure and stable compared to alternatives. But data tells a different story:

Kudos still to Apple team for continuing to maintain the reality distortion field.

Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360

I may start sounding like a broken record but greed, the desire to control and uncompetitive practices are prevalent and is expeced of Apple. That seems to be in their blood. Until Steve Job's demise, I thought it was him who was influencing all this. But it continues in his absence which leads me to believe that either he has had indelible influence on the company's culture. Or, that is what Apple has always been.

Anyway, some choice quotes from the linked article:

"I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple’s EULA for its new ebook authoring program."

"Under this license agreement, you are out of luck. They won’t sell it, and you can’t legally sell it elsewhere. You can give it away, but you can’t sell it. Updated to add: By “it,” I am referring to the book, not the content. The program allows you to export your work as plain text, with all formatting stripped. So you do have the option to take the formatting work you did in iBooks Author, throw it away, and start over. That is a devastating potential limitation for an author/publisher. Outputting as PDF would preserve the formatting, but again the license would appear to prohibit you from selling that work, because it was generated by iBooks Author."

If Apple Wins We All Lose

Original Gizmodo Blog - http://gizmodo.com/5869598/if-apple-wins-we-all-lose

I couldn't agree more! The patents that are used to claim infringement is outright silly as the author points out. Apple is very afraid of Google and they aren't able to innovate fast enough and so it is resorting to patent war!

Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it.

Original Article: http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/apple-never-designed-the-ipad-they-undesigned-it/

The author makes a strong case for why Apple's claim that Samsung Galaxy is an iPad clone is plain just dubious. What Apple is doing isn't anything new!

Apple using patents to undermine open standards again

Full Story: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/12/09/apple-w3c

Apple is clearly becoming the Microsoft of the 90's! On the other hand, why does the open source/ standards community think Apple would work with them when Apple prefers Walled Garden time and again with its various products?

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"