… praise Apple! Uh, no, bashing time?
rzwitserloot posted in apple on April 2nd, 2006

I am generally considered an apple evangelist. Especially by those around me who find my continuous put-downs of their archaic dinky windows-based notebooks rather annoying.

However, I also believe that, if apple did ‘win’ and gained the kind of market share that microsoft currently enjoys, we (the IT world) would be in a heap of trouble. I feel Apple will out-microsoft microsoft by miles, applying DRM, TPM, and a host of other three-letter acronyms to lock out everyone, from everything.

I’m still an Apple evangelist because I’ll be old and grey before it’ll ever happen.

Steve Jobs and co. had a real shiny chance of proving my reservations about the Apple Hegemony wrong in the France vs. Apple lawsuit regarding lack of interoperability of the iTunes Music Store.

Basically, France has ordered Apple to allow music bought with iTunes to work in all portable music players, not just iPods. Needless to say, that’s a good idea.

Apple has fought the decision tooth and nail, bringing in loads of dubious arguments - in the sense that they are basically complete lies.

Tip of the iceberg, people. This IS the company spouting this crap, and this IS the company sticking TPM chips into their hardware, then locking their software to it. And the worst thing? Not one of the people I know who use Apples appear to care about this stuff one iota, with an exception for Alper, who also reports on the French situation.

I refer you to Alper’s blog article about why, exactly, DRM, TPM, and all that jazz is Bad.

Here’s hoping Steve never gets that market share.