Don't try and waste an Apple fans' time with things like facts.

Like the first poster that erroneously claims there are no software patent violation claims.

Actually the opposite would happen. Consider that the chicken is the most succesful bird currently for a few reasons, It is: fat, tasty, and slow, and defenseless.

Consider if farmers were not keeping foxes and cats away from them, I do not think they would be as successful.

To further your good argument, Apple sells Mac OS X by itself.

Since you didn't post to my Apple bashing anonymously, I will explain myself...

My impression and limited experience of Mac users has been folks who genuinely think Apple is innovative. I believe they are not. They take existing technology and perhaps make it more mature by adding a good interface to it. I give them credit for making things like mp3 players more mainstream but they did it by trying to pushing their own format. In the end they are bad for the industry and I am glad their strategy of keeping everything closed failed the last time around they were a heavy player.

Very simply, if "Apple" in the article was replaced with the less word hip "Sony" all the Apple fans would not be happy.

I never do never will

but I do point out when a company continuously acts like a fool. The bigger fools of course are the users who overpay and support it because they like having a more closed system as long as the interface is shinier.

Apple did it so it can't be bad

This is bad because the Eagles may be even more greedy than the record companies. They dont mind bilking their fans when they go on tour and probably wouldn't mind when selling their wares.

I am afraid you are incorrect. Intent is very relevant for crimes.

If someone kills someone accidentally, say for example in a car accident they are not guilty of a crime (for example someone jay walking and jumping in front of your car). However, if someone kills someone while drunk driving or say robbing a bank, they are. This is the gray area that exists but basically in the 2 latter situations it would be criminal and the punishment would be penal NOT civil or monetary (though you can have a civil penalty as well). A mens rea (guilty mind) standard is applied which goes to intent.

Furthermore, the implied warranty is uniform commercial code and NOT criminal. There is no penalty of loss of freedom (ie jail) in the UCC and neither should there be.

I believe most people do not have your flexibility and would not take off work to waste half a day in small claims court for a few bucks.

Truthfully no one would bother unless it was a class action. The Sony attorneys I am sure bitterly fought having a class approved by the court. The attorneys will be the real winners either way.

Crimes require intent. AKA a guilty mind (mens rea). I assume the majority of the updates were successful which would make it hard to prove they intentionally wanted to brick units to charge repairs.

I wonder if just modified units were bricked (in Apple's grand tradition).

I think the point is that you cannot do with an iPhone what I can do with my WM device without jailbreaking it (and I can still do more with my pro2 even then). And most "apple fanboi's" support and are proponents of Apple regardless of how closed they are. They follow them no matter how Apple treats their customers. They are no different than M$ and in my opinion worse.

I do like their interface. Probably their only real contribution.

That love apple no matter what will flock to them anyway, pay, and not care (as long as its not Microsoft I can pretend I'm cool and tech savvy at the same time).

They are not the police and they shouldn't be trying to police what bad things can come from good things. They should be selling software. The reason is more likely that they are control freaks and not noble. Apple the spoiled preferred child really IMHO is as bad if not worse than MS in having a closed system. Their sheep of users always give them a free ride.

Having quick/convenient access to a spell checker, thesaurus, and dictionary has increased my orthography. My penmanship is another story but that wasn't the word processors fault to begin with.