DiGiMan: Apple sucks. Why?

If you are not Intellectually challenged, you wouldn't like Apple.

Apple Sucks

There are many reasons why we hate #Apple and one important thing is #Privacy. They don't give a furry crack on rat's behind about their user's privacy.

Apple operates a network of services for managing contacts, calendars and correspondence across all its devices. This amounts to a huge vacuum sucking up users' personal information and storing it in a centralized server farms that are vulnerable to attacks. And since the software running on people's Apple devices is proprietary, no one except Apple can audit it and know exactly what it is sending to the mothership.
It was even worse. Prior to iOS 7, Apple let third-party applications access and store your entire address book without indication.

There are many companies that advocates free software. But Apple is just the opposite. Apple's App Store only allows restrictively licensed software.

As part of its micromanaging of the apps available for iOS, Apple censors all free software. Additionally, iTunes, which comes with desktop and mobile devices, refuses to play media in free formats like Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora.

What can you do with your Apple device? Apple, not you, controls what you can install on mobile devices.

Apple corporate headquarters keeps a tight lock on the apps available for its mobile operating system (iOS), which is used on the Apple Watch, iPhone, iPod and iPad. Software developers even have to pay a tax to Apple to publish their work in the App Store.

Apple also prevents you from changing the operating system on the devices, so there's no way to escape the restrictions. If you try to change the software on your device, Apple's lawyers claim you are a criminal under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Apple argues these measures are for "security." Security expert Bruce Schneier says that "With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control'."

Do you know that Apple's restrictions prevent Mozilla from bringing the current version of Firefox to iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). Read about it from Mozilla here: http://mzl.la/14AcVMU

Apple is a patent bully and hostile to developers. A Simple Google search for 'patent bully' returns results only about Apple.

Apple continually amasses patents, simply so that it can threaten other developers with lawsuits if they create something vaguely similar to an Apple program, even by accident. Apple's aggression chills innovation in the world of software (especially free software), because developers are afraid of getting on Apple's bad side. Yes, it is a Rotten Apple.

Apple is Defective by Design

All Apple products impose DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) that takes control of your music, movies, shows and games away from you. Even though it's possible to download DRM-free music through iTunes, its streaming music and rental movies and show have DRM. Apple even uses DRM to prevent Macs from playing video on "unauthorized" displays.

Despite this disregard for its users, Apple is one of the best-known technology companies in the world. Help fight the hype by taking action and learning more about Apple's wrongdoing.

Do you think that users must have freedom and control on their devices? Don't you feel that the unethical restrictions must be removed?

Take Action

Email Apple CEO Tim Cook (tcook@apple.com, CC campaigns@fsf.org) and tell him that you'll never buy an Apple device unless the company chucks its unethical restrictions. See a sample email.