Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:32:28 +0000
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> […]
> > Also I think another part of what makes Google (and Apple) so
> > dangerous is that unlike MS, most people are still hailing them as
> > wonderful and benevolent companies.
> 
> The blinkered vision of Apple-heads is bizarre, but a great boon for
> Apple's bottom line.  Unlike Amazon, Starbucks, Google, and Microsoft,
> Apple appear to be getting away with anti-competition practices with
> equanimity.
> 

Yea, I've noticed the same thing :( People are so enamored with their
iDevices, that they think Apple can do no wrong. At least that's the
only explanation I can think of.

Like browsers, for instance. When Microsoft had their browser merely
uninstallable and set as the *initial* default browser, the DOJ went
apeshit, nevermind the fact that MS did *nothing* to prevent people
from downloading and using competing browsers. Apple, OTOH, does the
same, except they also PROHIBIT competing browsers (only the "shell"
around the webview widget can be changed), and yet as long as Apple's
the one doing it nobody seems to mind. Apple's has been known
to do the same for other software besides browsers as well.

And then Jobs's personal grudge against Android (still
unfortunately being carried out in full by the new regime, puppeted
by a ghost apparently), in particular the irrational lawsuit against
Samsung where Apple is abusing software/design patents to go on the
offensive (not just using them defensively). The judge, even as an Apple
user, made it clear that Apple had basically no standing, and yet those
goddamn jururs irrationally ruled in favor of Apple anyway.