[sunchild]

Yes, and never mind that just about everything you take for granted about personal computers was "given" by Apple, too. I find this notion that users are entitled to complete device freedom really annoying.

If you find it so objectionable, go build your own hardware and OS platform. This isn't a matter of human rights because no one is telling you that you can't make your own.

[icebraining]

Yes, and never mind that just about everything you take for granted about personal computers was "given" by Apple, too.

The RDF is on full effect there, I see. You might want to look at systems like the Xerox Alto & Star, both released before the Lisa. The implementation was certainly excellent - and I have a lot of respect for the Lisa and Macintosh engineers - but many of the concepts were invented elsewhere.

[sunchild]

@cooldeal: Nope, I'm dead serious. There's no fundamental human right that entitles you to tell Apple (or any other device maker) what it can and can't sell you.

[icebraining]

Of course there is, it's called Free Speech. There's no right that entitles you to force Apple to do what you want, but then again, nobody's arguing for it.

[vacri]

... you really object to users stating what they want to have?

So... Apple generally gets kudos for 'giving users what they want', but users are not allowed to say what they want?

Nice work.

[sunchild]

@recoiledsnake: (for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to reply directly to you)

You're comparing Apple's ecosystem to Earth's.

Apple is a private company that makes products that are sold on the commercial markets. The Earth is something entirely different. If Apple made planets, then yes – they could decide how to manage the atmosphere. That's how business works.

[icebraining]

(for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to reply directly to you)

It's a cool-off period.

[sunchild]

To keep me from advocating an unpopular, but entirely rational, position – all while other people freely misrepresent the First Amendment in response to my comments.

[icebraining]

It's an algorithm, I'm pretty sure it has nothing against you.

[recoiledsnake]

And if you don't like pollution and global warming, stop complaining and trying to make things better, instead colonize your own planet and make them pollution-free.

[soc88]

Great sarcasm. :-)

[cooldeal]

I honestly can't get if that's sarcasm or the poster really believes such things. I think Poe's law applies here.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law