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Well...they only deleted the competition's music "for your own good". I'd post a picture, but I'm too tired to shop a transparent apple, mate.

As Al-Qaida/Boko Haram/Shish Kabob/etc. would say, "We only kidnapped and murdered your family for your own good."

What a wonderful world, with so many folks caring about your good, isn't it?

Some non-Apple music:

 I have currently about 7GB of music on my iphone and i dont recall just a single mp3 ever being deleted from there against my will for whatever reason. And you can bet utter majority of those mp3s were not bought from iTunes. So this is basically non-issue - unlike other things, like for example iphone going all hot and draining battery like crazy while using wifi on iOS 8.1. Thats a thing that needs attention of media, so it gets fixed.

Only 'Apple' thing I own is a 2C ...paid $5 for the whole thing...and I still think it was overpriced as a bookend....

It's a simple 'curiosity' [dust collector].... just like the mantel piece valve radio my old man got going again.... great if you want to listen to AM. [I don't].

I once threw out a genuine IBM XT and since rued the day...as an exact copy resides in our Museum beside CSIRAC [the world's only surviving 1st gen computer].

Wow! I'm feeling old,I used to work with IBM XT's. I even worked on Zenith computers before they shut down in the US. Ahhhh, the old 8086, 80286, 80386 and 80486's.....  I remember them well. 

I had an IBM machine in my PC infancy [was the 2nd machine I ever owned... and I've had a couple dozen since]

Dunno if it was an XT or not, but it was a P2 1.8ghz and had 512mb RAM... like wow, it was a flyer.

Not really, which is why I invested in a build of my own when the opportunity arose.

I sold the IBM in working order with monitor, keyboard and mouse for $150 to help finance the new build.... a P4 with 2gb RAM

Like I said, I don't recall what model it was, just that it was an IBM and had a nice bootscreen [compared to the Windows equielant]

In fact, it was quite a decent PC in its day... Apple could have learn't quite alot if it had taken the time to care [read: give a shit].

Anyway, this thread isn't about how good IBM was/is, but about how bad Apple is and always will be.

So people, please feel free to diss Apple... whenever you can; wherever you can; for whatever reason you can.

The more the merrier.

Doesn't have to be legitimate... or even real, just diss because you can... because you fechen want to.

No excuses needed... just do it because it feels good.

Oh, and ID, I know that you have alot of Apple products on your desk, so please don't feel obliged to join in... unless you want to, that is.

So there, owners of Apple tech are more than welcome to say their piece about the things that piss them off about Apple's walled garden and other quirks/peculiarities the company has regarding users want, needs, rights, etc.

I do not think the XT did 1mb.  The AT did.  It was a 286 that started at 8mhz and went up from there.  We used a 16mhz AT for our first file server (it also had 4mb of RAM and ran Novell Netware).  It had a 33mb external HD that sounded like a jet taxiing , and was the size of a small pig.  It died after 1 year.

Ah, the fun of early PCs.

Yea, that is the XT!  And you are correct.  It was the plane jane PC that did not do the 1mb cards.  Time dulls memories.

But I had one customer in 1991 who wanted me to upgrade one of those suckers to accept a 3.5" floppy!  Because the damn thing would not die!

I like that even more!

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I really wanted to take a shot at Google today but couldn't find anything newsworthy or damning.

However, I found the next best thing...  a damning indictment on Apple... something it oughta be fechin' ashamed of but instead is defending.

Yup, the mother-whats-its [insert expletive here] created software to delete competitors music purchased by users from their iPods and other fechen i devices.

Despicable ain't the word for it!  Try downright fechen criminal... and Apple is trying to justify it by saying it was for customers own good.

For security reasons my arse! 

Worse still, there was no explanation... nothing.  Nope, the head of Apple security treated customers like dumbarses [and probably some are/were] by saying an explantion would have been confusing... and therefore their purchases were just wiped away.

Bastards, that's all I gotta say, dirty rotten criminal bastards.

So what say you, peoples of Stardock, etc?

 

Please do not bash apple in the forums without a warrant. Downright fechen criminal.

This is NOT Apple bashing... we're taking pot shots.  Besides, Apple's reputation is already bruised... was long before this thread came to mind... will be long after the thread is forgotten... and not because of it.... because Apple is its own worst enemy, what with dubious litigations and 'inventing' everything from the wheel to toilet seats

Because Steve Jobs even 'stole' the Beatles Recording Label....then when taken to task over it AGREED NOT to enter into the music industry and thus cause Trade Name confusion - adding insult to existing injury....

....and promptly released this iTunes junk...thus violating the agreement yet again.

Saddest part is....he admitted TAKING the name....cos he liked the Beatles.

Here's the trick, you arse...don't dilute their IP by copying the 'Apple' name.

I suppose he stopped short of a double sided logo...you know....an apple on one side...and the cut side on the other....[young people may need to ask their parents].

Not bashing him, but he 'could' have shown an inventive spark and come up with his own name.

He even flaunted it - that is where the sound "sosumi" comes from.  If you sound it out, you get the message he gave the Beatles.