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Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Re: Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Post by cabalamat »

andr wrote: post #40
Locke1689 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take it up with the police, not Apple.

Apple sits on the steering committee of the police unit that entered Chen's house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1795

Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.

Re: Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Post by rythie »

jrockway wrote: post #20

Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes! What the fuck is going on?! It's all mixed up! At least Apple doesn't charge you $80 to change your desktop background on a netbook. But otherwise, I agree. Apple is hurting the field -- locking down hardware, mandating woefully outdated legacy programming languages, a…

1. Apple doesn't make a netbook

2. The cheapest Laptop Apple sells costs $999. The iPad costs $499. Where as the most popular netbook on amazon.com costs $362 (Asus EeePC 1005PE). This is certainly more than the $80 difference Microsoft charge.

Re: Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Post by cmang »

monkeygrinder wrote: post #43

Shame, I can't see this video from UK. 'Not available in your country'. Still don't understand the reasoning behind regional limits on online video - esp as it airs on TV.

I think it may have to do with advertising targeting different regions. If they're advertising something you can't buy in your country, then what is the advertiser paying for?

Re: Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Post by wtn »

BRadmin wrote: post #37
cookiecaper wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this relevant to the video? He didn't claim that Apple had any personal information on its users. It sounds like you're bringing up an unrelated point to deflect attention from Apple's actions. That is not appropriate!

I don't believe he's giving an opinion about Apple's actions, rather the accuracy of calling them "Big Brother" in light of the fact that other companies maintain a lot more information about their users than Apple does.

Yes, the video wasn't working when I tried to view it earlier.

Re: Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

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Post by wtn »

rayval wrote: post #29
gizmo wrote: post #17

Hmm, I think Jon took a few too many creative liberties here for the sake of entertainment. 1. According to Gizmodo the door was broken in because the journalist wasn't at home. He was having dinner in a restaurant, arrived later when the search was already in progress. The authorities acted respectfully with his belongings, etc. There is a huge difference between ringing the bell a few times and breaking the door wh…

The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not even need to visit the premises. They could have used a subpoena.

That's how you rack up overtime.
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