The Minority Report

This comes from Kontra over on his CounterNotions blog. I think it’s worth reading and I’ve left out the “Remembrance of Things Past” section and that is where the meat is.

I have to say that I’ve been noticing in the “press” lately (read blogs) that there seems to be a little backlash against Apple lately. I’m sure in real time this is just a blip on the radar but in Internet time, it’s seems like there are a crowd of villagers right outside 1 Infinate Loop with pitchforks and torches.

I think it seemingly comes from the developers regarding the difficulties that they are having with the AppStore. It could come from the super secretive nature of Apple or maybe just jealousy that Apple doesn’t give the whingers the ego soothing that they crave. Who knows.

One of the shiniest memes around recently has been the incessant banging of the “Apple’s evil” drum. Most notably written in endless self-indulgent and self-righteous detail about how one self-important person or another gave up the iPhone…because “Apple’s evil.”

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There are several leitmotivs. One is that the iPhone fell short of their ideal of what a smartphone has to be. Another is their perception that Apple’s recent growth and profitability necessarily make it evil much the way Google is also considered as such, because all large companies must be, like Microsoft, evil. Of course, Apple is controlled by a single person named Steve Jobs, who, if you’re wondering, is evil. In their topsy turvy world, Apple is evil because it’s propriatery and closed; it doesn’t even blog. Clearly, on the “Apple’s evil” planet value doesn’t count: Apple is grossly expensive for no reason. Apple’s evilness is best demonstrated finally by the App Store, where somehow a rejection rate of less than 0.0003% out of 65,000 apps makes Apple…evil.
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