See also: RMS.

Soon to follow: iCar, iHouse, iHood, iCity, iCounty, iState, and finally the United States of Apple.

I have a few problems with this philosophy. Take marriage as an example: if your solution to marital problems is quietly dropping hints, you will have a miserable marriage. "Let the marketing people figure out why sales dropped" is a horrible solution. Clear and direct communication is usually the best solution to any problem in which humans are involved.

Also, "Apple products make lots of people happy" is misleading. My mom bought an iPad, and for the most part it serves her well, but she absolutely hates the look of the calendar app. I looked and looked, but could not for the life of me find any way to significantly customize that stupid app. Lots of people are in this situation: they think that Apple products are unrivaled and therefore put up with Apple's crap. Apple does a lot of great things but is generally pretty bad at giving the user significant power to customize. This is a trend that is simply unacceptable for the future computing; it inevitably leads down the path of censorship and excessive governmental control.

I think I'll try both and see what works out.

webOS, blackberry

Well it kinda-sorta worked on GoDaddy. Ish.

The project you are looking for is Bootstrap.

Bootstrap uses Scheme/Racket and focuses on the algebraic/functional aspects of programming. The teaching materials are freely available online. They even sell "I program my own videogames" T-shirts.

The one that came after a wall of incomprehensible legalese? I'm sure you "agreed" to give up your virtual second amendment rights, among various other things.

Apple may be lucrative now, but I have serious doubts that Apple can sustain their market dominance for long.

The glossy white throne with perfectly rounded corners is right over here.

They just auto-renewed me last month. I was looking into other options, but since my website has ~0 traffic, I didn't worry about it too much. Now I have more reason to be sad that I didn't switch.

So...our plan is to cut America off from those nasty pirates, so that good ol' Americans will be forced to pay full price for content they might otherwise pirate? Does this supposed $135 billion lost annual revenue come entirely from the US? There are so many things wrong with this guy's logic...

Soon it will be illegal to own a computer.

I agree with everything you just said...except "they steal from the open source community". I say it all the time regarding "pirate" conversations, and I'll say it here: intellectual property isn't real property, and it cannot be "stolen". Now, does Apple copy from FreeBSD without giving back? Yes, certainly. But not "steal".

Using apps during a solar eclipse, using apps during a lunar eclipse, using apps while using apps, using apps while listening to music, using apps while closing one's eyes, using apps while the phone is laying flat on a desk, using apps while the phone is laying slanted on a pillow...the patent possibilities are endless!