For years Apple fanboys have been using the security benefits of using anything other than a Windows machine as justification for their dogmatic view around Apple products and services.
Of late I’ve been hearing more reports of viruses specifically targeting the Apple operating system - surely this is a function of the rising popularity of the products out of Cupertino - the more popular they become, and the more fanboys proclaim the security benefits of Apple products - the more motivated the dark knights of virus, phishing and spam infamy will be to invade the Apple products.
It was interesting to see then that Apple’s seriously plagued MobileMe service has been the target of a phishing scam.
Yet another nail in the coffin of the fanboy’s dogma?
So an aspiring artist offered an application on apple’s iTunes store "I Am Rich" for the not-inconsequential price of $999.99. The listing clearly stated that the application did nothing (beyond provide bragging rights de jour).
A few people purchased the application and are now crying foul of the fact that someone sold an app for $999 which did nothing.
Apple, bending to the complaints and in a fit of political correctness indicative of why we live in sad times, blacklisted the application.
I mean WTF? There was no duplicity here - the app did exactly what it said it would. It’s like car dealers blacklisting Hummers because it’s discovered that they’re behemoths with terrible fuel economy that do nothing for the penis-envy suffered by most of the sad people who buy them.
Or like vendors black listing Vertu cellphones because they do no more than a cheap Nokia but cost many times more.
El Jobso won’t be liking this - yep the Cupertino-kids, kings (usually) of execution get roasted by Scoble after his experience of having his calendar entries deleted by MobileMe.
I’d be thinking that heads will be rolling down the alleys of Cupertino this week!
Apparently in a semi off-the-record interview with the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs disclosed that while he has some health concerns, they are not life threatening.
Then, as if to prove he’s pretty much on usual form, he’s quoted as saying;
This is Steve Jobs, you think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong
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