Originally Posted by garce

I bought all of my kids iPods a number of years back. Couldn't even change the batteries when they stopped accepting a charge, and iTunes installed so much unnecessary crap on their computers that they despise Apple now.

My daughter loves her Blackberry, and my son got an Adroid phone a couple of days ago. I'm proud of them. I'd be even more proud if I didn't have to pay for them, but...

If I can't open a product and freely change its parts, its a useless piece of shit to me. But I forgot - I'm supposed to replace everything I own every year. My bad.

I can't believe that people puke out money every single year to replace the disposable product they just purchased twelve months ago. It works so well because it only does what Apple says it can do!

I guess that's why the City of Toronto passes out those little blue electronics disposal bags - so you have an easy way to dispose of all the useless Apple shit you bought last year.

I don't need some elitist corpse in a fucking turtleneck telling me what I can do with the products I purchase.

"It" might be "built on Unix" (your words) but there is NOTHING open source about anything Apple makes. Limitations? The average person cannot do anything with their Apple product unless Apple gives them permission to do it.