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    #1
    25th January 2010, 4:17 AM
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/24/...he-Orchard
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    25th January 2010, 7:23 AM
    I don't think I'd ever buy an Apple computer, what with them being overpriced to the third power.

    But, their devices? That's another story. I love both of my iPods. <3
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    26th January 2010, 9:08 AM
    .....i've been browsing on at least a dozen different world webs that are not part of the www but use it as its backbone. They're slow and shitty, but downloading SNES games has never been easier.

    I dont really see this as negative, we'll always have a choice. This sounds to me more like 'if you use an apple product to browse the web, you'll be browsing Apple's web' Not a biggie to me and definitely not reason to bring up the massacres of the Carbonferious period.
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    26th January 2010, 4:30 PM
    I'm all for net neutrality, and in fact I think it should be enforced, but there's nothing wrong with a company providing servers that people have to access on that company's terms. Net providers limiting access is totally different from this.

    A "web on the web" is basically still the web.

    Now if you have to go through their servers to access NORMAL internet whenver you are on a Mac device, that's a different story. That's just plain stupid.

    One thing's for sure, any article that begins with a diatribe about pre-history to make some point about human civilization is barely worth the HTML it's printed on.
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    #5
    26th January 2010, 5:07 PM
    Pretty much every article on Daily Kos is barely worth the HTML it's printed on.
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    26th January 2010, 8:15 PM
    Daily Kos is a great site, one of the best around. That article is maybe a little funny though, I think Kos himself uses a Mac... :) (he did not write that article)

    Anyway, sure maybe the author goes a little far, but the point that Apple is evil is accurate, I think. I mean, Microsoft is evil too, but they actually (are forced to?) allow competition on their devices. Apple doesn't do that, and that's why, if it were more successful, it would be much more dangerous than Microsoft... and that's the point of the article I think, if everyone goes and gets Apple devices and is on the iWeb or whatever instead of the actual internet, it wouldn't be a good thing for the internet and society in general.

    (iWeb, hah, I like that... :))
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    27th January 2010, 3:38 AM
    iWeb is actually a real program funnily enough...is funnily a word?
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    27th January 2010, 8:20 AM
    I other news, Apple has recently trademarked the word "ifunnily"

    ABF/ Just dont buy an apple product. ;D

    This is kind of similar news, but did anyone here read about Google chinese censorship? Basically making Google unable to find pages that deal with government or religion.
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    27th January 2010, 4:21 PM
    DMiller Wrote:iWeb is actually a real program funnily enough...is funnily a word?

    Well the auto-spellchecker in Seamonkey doesn't underline it, so I guess it is.

    As for iWeb, what is it, the Apple version of the internet that that article warned about? :)
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    28th January 2010, 8:27 PM
    It's their program to create web pages. It creates some pretty cool-looking pages, but there is a lot of bloated code behind it.
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    1st February 2010, 9:47 AM
    Weltall Wrote:I don't think I'd ever buy an Apple computer, what with them being overpriced to the third power.

    But, their devices? That's another story. I love both of my iPods. <3
    I have only this to say about my IPOD Touch...

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    1st February 2010, 5:41 PM
    I just gotta ask, what does the "i" in front of all their products stand for?

    It made sense when they tacked "e" in front of everything. E = Electronic. i? Well, I guess it could stand for "internet" but for the vast majority of their products, that wouldn't make any sense. The iPods didn't have internet access originally after all.
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    1st February 2010, 7:37 PM
    Dark Jaguar Wrote:I just gotta ask, what does the "i" in front of all their products stand for?

    It made sense when they tacked "e" in front of everything. E = Electronic. i? Well, I guess it could stand for "internet" but for the vast majority of their products, that wouldn't make any sense. The iPods didn't have internet access originally after all.

    "Interactive" ??
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