[LINK] Steve Jobs: Great unwashed don't need PCs

David Goldstein wavey_one at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 3 15:57:18 AEST 2010


So then an internet service provider choosing to block content for their own reasons is OK too I presume? And then assuming this to be the case, you must *not* be a supporter of net neutrality either?

David



----- Original Message ----
> From: Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com>
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> Sent: Thu, 3 June, 2010 3:41:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Steve Jobs: Great unwashed don't need PCs
> 
> 
On 03/06/2010, at 2:41 PM, David Goldstein wrote:

> One thing that 
> seems to be missed here is Apple censors anything that is remotely 
> sex-orientation from the Apple apps store.

Myer and David Jones NOT 
> selling porn or gay comics is not 'censorship'. Apple choosing to not sell an 
> app because of its content or purpose is not 'censorship', either.

At 
> present they do appear to be particularly puritanical (they also say that they 
> are learning from their mistakes). But they don't NEED to sell porn or sex to be 
> successful. In fact, like any other marketplace, they can choose what they sell 
> (apps or otherwise). Myer and David Jones don't sell porn (or at least I don't 
> think so), and Apple can choose what they sell, too. The appstore is just a 
> store. And has competition. It's no big deal.

However, Apple has 
> inconsistencies with what is available through the overall Apple appstore 
> mechanism: iTunes offers all kinds of 'objectionable' content and sex (via 
> movies, music and podcasts etc). Even swear words otherwise expunged from iPhone 
> dictionaries.

Apple is on record as stating that porn, malicious apps 
> (whatever context you care to put that into) and apps that invade privacy will 
> not get a run in their store. I have no problem with what they choose to put on 
> their shelves.

What *I* object to is that Apple don't publish their 
> rules, or change them so often it is confusing. Either way, they need to explain 
> what they are doing, and let the punters decide if this warrants buying their 
> product, or not. Consumers will simply vote with their feet in the 
> end.

There is a strange prurience in America, which might explain most of 
> the problem. Their moral crusade might be defensible if it was consistently 
> applied to violence as much as sex. But I digress.

iT

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