They didn't 'take' it. They BOUGHT it.
And modified it illegally and enabled others to break copyright and EULA restrictions.
Learn the difference and maybe you'll realize that consumers should have rights too, not just big corporations and their distortion of copyrights to the nth degree.
You just love to think of yourself as the rebel don't you? The social agitator and modern superhero fighting for the right of the vulgar man; buck the system by breaking the rules and flouting lawsinstead of following the social and civil rules and letting it be a matter of law through allowing the courts to decide.
Apple's OS should compete with other operating systems.
How does it not?! OS X competes directly with many flavours of Windows and Linux.
You probably mean that Apple should allow OS X to compete on non-Apple hardware. Why? Why
should they? Because you want them to? When you run Apple you can make that change.
Their hardware should compete with other hardware given its nothing special these days, but the SAME stuff Dell is selling, except Dell doesn't tell you what you can put on their hardware.
Apple doesn't dictate what one can install on their hardware either. In fact, it openly embraces allowing the user his choice of software.
Apple shouldn't have to tie the two together and deny consumer rights to install their OS on the hardware of their choice in order to force someone to buy their overpriced hardware.
Why not? It's Apple's business to run as it likes. If you don't like its business practices then don't buy Apple products. Oh, but you don't want to go without OS X, so instead of making a choice and perhaps biting the bullet and buying an Apple system (which countless comparisons have shown to be not only inline with PC prices but actually
cheaper) you justify your illegal actions with "I don't like what they're doing so I'll just ignore the rules". I hope you aren't morally corrupting any children with this
ME! ME! ME! attitude.
Some of us are willing to buy OS X; that doesn't mean we want to buy Apple's overpriced hardware or stupid all-in-one designs that have nearly useless laptop GPUs and no expansion capability short of cluttering your desktop with extra power supplies and external cases. OS X is an operating system. It's not a computer in a monitor case. Some people on here apparently can't tell the difference, though.
Dip into whatever hyperbole you like but everyone here can tell the difference between hardware and OS. The "issue" is that in Apple's systems they go hand-in-hand; it's a package deal. If you don't want the hardware you don't get the OS.
This is as much political as it is anything else. Vote Republican and you vote for Corporate Rights to control your life instead of consumer rights to have freedom of choice in a democracy that's supposed to be ruled by the people, not the giant corporations and their rich owners.
What the Hell is it with Americans bringing
everything down to politics? Election year or not the forums are
always cluttered with this crap.
