This is all over the internet as a possible violation of antitrust laws. Apple has a monopoly on their own product. It should be just fine for other people to repackage their intellectual property and sell it for a profit.

Excuse my cynicism, but that’s plain fecking stupid.

By the same logic it should be legal for a company to buy Coca Cola and put it their own trademarked cans and sell it for profit. If the Coca Cola company doesn’t like it, tough shit.

Coca Cola has a monopoly on Coca Cola. DAMN them.

If you don’t think that’s retarded, go away.

If you want to build a Hackintosh, and run a copy of Leopard on it, it isn’t officially sanctioned but Apple probably won’t care.

If you want to turn a profit using the fruits of Apple’s innovation, Apple is going to kick your ass through the goal post from midfield. 

Apple makes the whole widget. Apple supports the whole widget. When Little Psystar’s econoboxes start crapping out, they’ll have Apple software running them. Little Psystars customers – people with IQs in the mid double digits – will blame Apple. They won’t blame themselves for being stupid enough to buy a piece of crap from a fly-by-night rip off artist. The last thing they see before the damn thing crashes will be an Apple logo. 

Apple cannot support what it cannot control.

I predict Apple will kick Little Psystar in the ass so hard they’ll have to do surgery to get their boot back.

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I don’t know what Apple’s standards are for accepting Apps into the App Store. It seems like the bar is set pretty low though. Surfing around the store I found a half-dozen or so apps that interested me. I’m not much of a game player, which chops off a huge section of the continent for me right off the bat.

I’m interested in applications that will enhance my life with an indispensable function. It takes a lot of surfing to find any that flip my burger.

Given that, if Apple decides to banish or not accept an app into the App Store, for whatever reason, it’s okay with me. Keep down the clutter.

So, um, the Comic Reader app got banned. Supposedly this was censorship of the flagship comic “Murderdrome.” It’s a poorly drawn, poorly written gore-fest, without redeeming social value (if its blog is any indication).

I’m willing to bet Comic Reader is a sucky application, and “Murderdrome” made the whole package that much less acceptable. Anyway, dumbasses all over the place are screaming, “Censorship.”

It isn’t censorship for Apple to refuse to sell anything. It’s called proprietary discretion. Apple isn’t suppressing the material, just saying, “we don’t sell that here.”

It’s like accusing a grocery store of suppressing auto parts by not having your grade of motor oil on the shelf.

Dumb.

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In all the years I’ve been using these gadgets I have never seen anything so continuously and brutally ridiculed and pilloried as Vista. Its defenders are rare not very vocal.

Statistically, it’s unanimous: Vista sucks like a pretty hitch hiker in a Ferrari.

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Dead brain, talking.

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Barry O’Bama is the Democratic nominee. It’s official. He has no chance of becoming our first Irish president.

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My fingers are tired.