Apple, not satisfied with been one of the worst employers in the world have become one of the worst content partners in the world.
Apple brags about 2 billion in royalties over the last ten years, this is a far cry from Microsoft who actually holds records for royalties and on going royalties.
Now Apple wants to sabotage the online book publishing market. To effect they lured authors in with support for epub, the open publishing system, that allowed writers to convert material using thier own (often free) software. It also allowed writers to move away from Apple if (often when) Apple failed to deliver.
Apple has long history since the Apple II personal computer of screwing the customer with dud technology they refused to fix, to upgrades that really was a new computer and they took your old one, only later to see they selling yours AND you could just waited 3 months and bought the "upgrade" at a lower price.
Don't forget notable duds like the LISA and early MACS. Only way to upgrade memory was buy a NEW one with more memory. That was only after you found out the basic model had just enough memory of the OS and couple of pages on your word processor before it overheated and crashed. Remember the Apple modem? You could buy a PC for the price of an Apple modem. Never mind a scanner that cost more than a car. Video editing you could buy a house.
Now comes the "iOWN". Apple wants to own "i" as a trademark. The "i" own now extends to "i" contented. Apple doesn't own (yet) their apple trademark. A company founded by the Beatles does. Apple has many times tried to buy the Apple outright, despite orginal agreements to lease the logo.
Apple has long history of anti-competition laws, from not adhearing to industry stardards on networking, software, file formats, keys on keyboard and trying stop other companies making same products. Most notable was the law suit over the windows key. Claiming it stole their idea for the apple key. Yet Apple happy to take idea of shift from IBM. Apple claims MS stole thier idea for windows, only a few years later in court having to admit Apple and MS both won right to code from Xerox's government funded Graphics OS. Which also included idea of desktop pointing device, later nicknamed, the mouse.
Apple wanted own "smartphone". Now the tablet computer. Sci-fi fans, wasn't it a 1960's show called STAR TREK (and in others) were people had computers in their hands?
Lot of 1950s sci-fi had hand held communictors that allowed people to talk to each other. There was a 1980s game that had a computer that was also a mobile phone and had AI that allowed phone to take messages, book appointments and track your location in emergancies. Apple didn't invent the ideas, they watched them on TV and rushed to patents office. Steve jobs pushing his engineering teams to perform or else, putting his name onto every product regardless of his input.
Now with iBooks Apple is trying shut down competition and force i-product users to only use i-formatted products and i-product products to be Apple slaves with Apple new end user agreement taking huge percentage without investing into production of the product. Kind of like a software pirate does.
But there is more, Apple just lost another law suit, in every country Apple been trying to stop Samsung from selling the Galaxy tablet (Apple claims they invented this portable device despite number of other companies from trying unsuccessfully to make one). A Dutch court ruled, as have every other court in the world that Apple had no case against Samsung. Apple stole from Samsung key networking technology that enables iPad 2 to network faster. Again courts unable to work out if Apple stole ideas or not.
So much for Apple and Obama on free trade. Apple is all about trying to create a monopoly. Own other peoples ideas and digital products. I wonder if Apple given up on putting IBM and Microsoft out of business given Apple hasn't successfully made a super computer. Nor has Apple successfully dominated any market for long. Apple is only financially viable because of anti-monpoly law suits against Microsoft.
iPhone is crap. Who wants pay so much for a phone that costs more and does far less than a basic computer. Then have to buy new one each year to upgrade. There is a reason Apple closed hundreds of stores and will again. They don't give a crap about the customer, only interested in bleeding the market dry. Once new, small, smart pcs start rolling out, phones that work with your home pc, use the same software Apple once again will be "that company that gone broke so many times before".
So Obama is lying about his commitment to ending inequality, after all Apple is one of his largest supporters and also one of the largest companies to fire Americans while making billions in profits only to send jobs to China just to increase profit. Nor has Obama done anything to protect rights of content providers, instead choosing to go after the hosts over copyright violations. A non-American file host service. Never mind all the American webhosts that host pay-to-click and forex scams and all the American web hosts that spam. Megaupload was targets because they were the biggest. Obama wasn't protecting anyone but American business who put money into his campaign. Megaupload didn't copy anything, people did and do and will because it now costs more than a months income to watch one weeks content. People sick of basic cable running the same re-runs. People sick of paying half a days pay to watch a 1 1/2 hour movie that has 15 minutes of intro and 10 minutes end credits and pay two hours pay for a drink and popcorn. You can buy 2 litres in the supermarket for less than you pay for a CUP in the movie thertre. But no Obama rather protect Disney, Warner and all the other porn producers from free internet porn.
That's right you read right, most of the content megaupload suppose to have distributed is porn. Big companys have shares in private equity firms, who in turn have shelf companies in Nevarda and Cayman Islands who inturn fund production of porn in LA. Most movies if anyone had half a brain to google search are hosted in countries outside US reach. Anyone using megaupload would know they hosted uploads from individuals, most of whom didn't want pay HUGE fees to us based hosts. Most of the pirate material (and mega deleted frequently and had reporting system) was archives from popular American porn sites (well said Asian porn but they were all US based llcs registered by same few mega-rich private equity firms owned by nameless private companies). 30 percent of Time's revenue is porn according to some research.
Apple, Disney and many others who are big Democrat supporters publicly don't produce any porn and often speak against it. Some media companies forced to admit they profit from porn. Especially when women from "X-rated" movies appear in b-grade teen movies and companies then claim they don't encourage underage drinking or underage sex like in all the teen flicks made by so called second tier companies that Disney, Apple, AOL-Time-Warner have a stake in. Then when same porn queens get hollywood invites, invites issued by companies that supposably don't make porn. Same companies that flood money to Democrats and yet most of their movies don't make a profit, putting burdon on state of California and US government on missed revenue.
Obama has a blind eye, the dollar bill is blocking him from seeing the very thing he speaks against.
Free market doesn't exist. Wake up.
Apple brags about 2 billion in royalties over the last ten years, this is a far cry from Microsoft who actually holds records for royalties and on going royalties.
Now Apple wants to sabotage the online book publishing market. To effect they lured authors in with support for epub, the open publishing system, that allowed writers to convert material using thier own (often free) software. It also allowed writers to move away from Apple if (often when) Apple failed to deliver.
Apple has long history since the Apple II personal computer of screwing the customer with dud technology they refused to fix, to upgrades that really was a new computer and they took your old one, only later to see they selling yours AND you could just waited 3 months and bought the "upgrade" at a lower price.
Don't forget notable duds like the LISA and early MACS. Only way to upgrade memory was buy a NEW one with more memory. That was only after you found out the basic model had just enough memory of the OS and couple of pages on your word processor before it overheated and crashed. Remember the Apple modem? You could buy a PC for the price of an Apple modem. Never mind a scanner that cost more than a car. Video editing you could buy a house.
Now comes the "iOWN". Apple wants to own "i" as a trademark. The "i" own now extends to "i" contented. Apple doesn't own (yet) their apple trademark. A company founded by the Beatles does. Apple has many times tried to buy the Apple outright, despite orginal agreements to lease the logo.
Apple has long history of anti-competition laws, from not adhearing to industry stardards on networking, software, file formats, keys on keyboard and trying stop other companies making same products. Most notable was the law suit over the windows key. Claiming it stole their idea for the apple key. Yet Apple happy to take idea of shift from IBM. Apple claims MS stole thier idea for windows, only a few years later in court having to admit Apple and MS both won right to code from Xerox's government funded Graphics OS. Which also included idea of desktop pointing device, later nicknamed, the mouse.
Apple wanted own "smartphone". Now the tablet computer. Sci-fi fans, wasn't it a 1960's show called STAR TREK (and in others) were people had computers in their hands?
Lot of 1950s sci-fi had hand held communictors that allowed people to talk to each other. There was a 1980s game that had a computer that was also a mobile phone and had AI that allowed phone to take messages, book appointments and track your location in emergancies. Apple didn't invent the ideas, they watched them on TV and rushed to patents office. Steve jobs pushing his engineering teams to perform or else, putting his name onto every product regardless of his input.
Now with iBooks Apple is trying shut down competition and force i-product users to only use i-formatted products and i-product products to be Apple slaves with Apple new end user agreement taking huge percentage without investing into production of the product. Kind of like a software pirate does.
But there is more, Apple just lost another law suit, in every country Apple been trying to stop Samsung from selling the Galaxy tablet (Apple claims they invented this portable device despite number of other companies from trying unsuccessfully to make one). A Dutch court ruled, as have every other court in the world that Apple had no case against Samsung. Apple stole from Samsung key networking technology that enables iPad 2 to network faster. Again courts unable to work out if Apple stole ideas or not.
So much for Apple and Obama on free trade. Apple is all about trying to create a monopoly. Own other peoples ideas and digital products. I wonder if Apple given up on putting IBM and Microsoft out of business given Apple hasn't successfully made a super computer. Nor has Apple successfully dominated any market for long. Apple is only financially viable because of anti-monpoly law suits against Microsoft.
iPhone is crap. Who wants pay so much for a phone that costs more and does far less than a basic computer. Then have to buy new one each year to upgrade. There is a reason Apple closed hundreds of stores and will again. They don't give a crap about the customer, only interested in bleeding the market dry. Once new, small, smart pcs start rolling out, phones that work with your home pc, use the same software Apple once again will be "that company that gone broke so many times before".
So Obama is lying about his commitment to ending inequality, after all Apple is one of his largest supporters and also one of the largest companies to fire Americans while making billions in profits only to send jobs to China just to increase profit. Nor has Obama done anything to protect rights of content providers, instead choosing to go after the hosts over copyright violations. A non-American file host service. Never mind all the American webhosts that host pay-to-click and forex scams and all the American web hosts that spam. Megaupload was targets because they were the biggest. Obama wasn't protecting anyone but American business who put money into his campaign. Megaupload didn't copy anything, people did and do and will because it now costs more than a months income to watch one weeks content. People sick of basic cable running the same re-runs. People sick of paying half a days pay to watch a 1 1/2 hour movie that has 15 minutes of intro and 10 minutes end credits and pay two hours pay for a drink and popcorn. You can buy 2 litres in the supermarket for less than you pay for a CUP in the movie thertre. But no Obama rather protect Disney, Warner and all the other porn producers from free internet porn.
That's right you read right, most of the content megaupload suppose to have distributed is porn. Big companys have shares in private equity firms, who in turn have shelf companies in Nevarda and Cayman Islands who inturn fund production of porn in LA. Most movies if anyone had half a brain to google search are hosted in countries outside US reach. Anyone using megaupload would know they hosted uploads from individuals, most of whom didn't want pay HUGE fees to us based hosts. Most of the pirate material (and mega deleted frequently and had reporting system) was archives from popular American porn sites (well said Asian porn but they were all US based llcs registered by same few mega-rich private equity firms owned by nameless private companies). 30 percent of Time's revenue is porn according to some research.
Apple, Disney and many others who are big Democrat supporters publicly don't produce any porn and often speak against it. Some media companies forced to admit they profit from porn. Especially when women from "X-rated" movies appear in b-grade teen movies and companies then claim they don't encourage underage drinking or underage sex like in all the teen flicks made by so called second tier companies that Disney, Apple, AOL-Time-Warner have a stake in. Then when same porn queens get hollywood invites, invites issued by companies that supposably don't make porn. Same companies that flood money to Democrats and yet most of their movies don't make a profit, putting burdon on state of California and US government on missed revenue.
Obama has a blind eye, the dollar bill is blocking him from seeing the very thing he speaks against.
Free market doesn't exist. Wake up.
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