I like apple products, but where MS blatantly lie and mislead you Apple are honest about doing it their way or the highway.

I have had reason to work with Apple's iTunes people in terms of supplying content from my employer (a large broadcast company) and they are just as obtuse then too.

happy to take the piss out of others, throw teddy out of cot when they are the target

There's a lovely one circulating where Adolf is a tad annoyed to have had his beloved Honda VFR replaced with a BMW motocycle.

...Apple pulled the plug on an app that provided a feed from another source that the developer of the app had no control over?

Seriously?

Pfft

So what happens if a developer produces an app that provides a direct feed from say, El Reg, and Vulture Central decide to publish a story on, let's say a maker of a well known mobile telephony device, and someone posts in the comments page to that story a link to a website that says "Ra ra ra ra apple fanboi ra ra ra ra overpriced handset ra ra ra ra raving maniacs ra ra ra ra", Apple would pull the plug on the app?

Again I say, Seriously?

Pfft

Shouldn't that be Reich-cursion?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1wKO3rID9g&feature=related

...but I read the words "kicked off" to mean "originated" rather than "removed from".

Which conjures up a completely different scenario.

How could an evil megalomaniac possibly have been responsible for a gadget which has brought untold benefits to mankind?

Anti-consumer? Holy underpants Batman... But... but you're a consumer?

However, unless you're a robot you don't have to buy anything - the bad people in the adverts won't come and take you away if you refuse to buy what they're trying to sell.

GO! Use your mighty consumer power! Stick it to the man! That'll teach him. He might be anti-consumer, but you can be anti-company and see how he likes that.

"SuBo"?

apple not lying.......

Sure remmeber they said the Iphone 3G was 3G speeds yet in offical tests ran at 2.5G.. which was confirmed by alot of different IT professionals from different fields of IT.. Sure

Shareholders don't like lawsuits. They don't like it when their baby is insulted or blamed for things beyond its control. So they instruct their board of directors to be risk-averse. Extremely risk-averse.

Pretty much anything could be offensive to *somebody*, so Apple's employees are told to play it as safe as possible. What Apple are doing is a symptom of the lawyer-happy society their HQ is based in. ("When in doubt, sue. Even when not in doubt, sue anyway as they might settle out of court just to shut you up." Either way, the lawyers win.)

And in case you think it's only Apple doing this, I suggest you pay closer attention to the news. (And no, it's not just the US either. The UK -- to pick just one EU member nation -- has become infamous as the capital of "libel tourism".)

Stop blaming the corporations. They're obliged to follow exactly the same damned, bat's-arse laws as you and I. The difference is that they're much bigger, wealthier targets and thus far more likely to get sued for money.

you might not like Apple, I might not like Apple, but please leave comments like "Job could very be hitler's son" out of this discussion

These parodies are top quality and, additionally, serve to promote the film. I'll certainly be renting this in the near future!

Telling people what they can or can't have. When something is available for me to purchase, it is MY choice whether or not I buy it. I don't need the censorship police making choices for me.

This is just another reason I will never buy an Apple product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIL3Jkezgj0

Priceless - thank you !