what crap!

>If we're talking strictly an issue of communication, then again there are technical decisions at work, and these apply because on Apple products you are entirely limited as to what data you can send / receive over non-WiFi networks.

Not True!
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>Apple is a bad decision all the way around for anyone who likes freedom, wants to maintain that freedom in the future. But, if you only like using a tool the way it's been handed to you, and with the features that are allowed by its "owners" in Cupertino, then it can be great. Many people use it ... but they're not using a free tool, only a tool. And there is a disctinction.

Again not true. the fact then Steve Job did not allow adobe flash on the ipad has something to do with adobe's crappy/buggy code and not freedom.
also apple will check it's iOS apps for viruses etc.. which in my opinion is a plus and not a minus.


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>There is a valid reason to choose freedom in devices. Having that much power in one place (money, political clout) will not help people, but will only harm them. It would be better to have 50 separate companies innovating and vying for our business.

Apple products have been superior in design and quality for decades.

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>For the record, I feel the same way about Microsoft and several large corporations. They've significantly stunted innovation and growth, and to an extent where it has harmed all of mankind. My entire adult programming life since the mid-1990s has been about undoing those monopolies. In my experience, people don't care about monopolies as long as they have whizz-bang eye candy. That is the reality I've been fighting for over 15 years.

and, as we can see you are loosing the battle :-)