Yep. And more.

It’s like someone ran a few Apple news items through some kind if snark filter and wound up with a random collection of “Apple evil” commentary appended to three or four unrelated stories with a half-hearted effort to pretend like it was all “about” something in particular.

Apple bad DRM? Apple mind control? Apple bad foreign government manipulator? Apple bad corporate citizen? Apple bad education destroyer? Apple bad super eeval seekret location tracker? Wheeeeee!

Plus, extra points for an opening sentence that actually makes no sense.

Never mind that Apple is doing absolutely nothing to help the Sanford class, and hasn’t even lifted the NDA on the iPhone SDK, making it difficult to handle the class. And ignore the fact that campuses across the country are being actively courted by Microsoft to teach .NET, Adobe to teach Flash and its other apps, and so on.

This is such ridiculously desperate spin on two nonevents. What is more interesting is that Apple is actually pushing the iPhone / iPod Touch as a learning tool, and has delivered a low cost handheld computer with an open, standards-based web programming interface. It’s also interesting that Apple has built a free collection of university podcasts and encouraged schools to open their education content for anyone to browse and listen to, for free. Nobody else is doing that.