Really dumb move, Apple
p2pnet.net News View:- “It really baffles me how they would do something like this,” writes p2pnet reader Nev on Apple’s bid to get the goods on three Apple devotees who had the temerity to publish details of upcoming Apple products.
But then, what else can you expect from a company which thinks it’s a good idea to use 16 teenaged RIAA victims in an iTunes / iPod ad campaign?
“I have a feeling the appeal will be instantaneous and supported by a lot of entities not involved with this case at all…lots of amicus briefs me thinks,” says TT.
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It’s just so myopic when you get down to it. Apple is one of the few brands that has religiously dedicated customers who are totally fanatical about anything with the brand name on it.
Here we have several blog operators, whose love for anything mac prompted them to dedicate their own time and money to build these sites. Moreover, what these sites amount to is a ridiculous amount of free publicity for Apple, creating buzz about new products, so that the market is saturated with customers chomping at the bit to be the first one to own the new mystery product.
As it stands now, because they didn’t have the tact to handle it discreetly, they’re taking legal action against some of their biggest proponents, and it makes them look like monsters, much the same as the RIAA.
Depending on how things out I’m of half a mind to contact the site operators and try to convince them to change the sites from pro-apple to anti-apple.
What reason do they have to stand by a company that treats its supporters with such blatant disregard?
Maybe their idiotic actions will come back to bite them in the ass when people come to realize that iPods are inferior machines designed for form over function.
-Nev
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March 4th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
IMHO Apple appears to want the head of the insider traitor on a plate in the worst way and does not seem to care at all about whatever collateral damage is caused in hunting that person down. The public forgets so very quickly and who gives a damn about freedom of the press anyway.
March 4th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
“who gives a damn about freedom of the press anyway. ”
lol, are you for real or just really that ignorant?
this link might just be for you…
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/
TT
March 4th, 2005 at 10:08 pm
Apple is rather dumb about other things too.
The Apple 30GB and 60GB ipods are marketed toward the more affluent. These units only support viral and spyware infested WinXP with service pac 2 installed and viral and spyware infested Win 2000 with service pac 4 installed. Anyone with a clean install of Win98 is out of luck even though they may not be in a position to shell out an additonal $100-$150 to upgrade to the infected software.
Evidently Apple is booking no truck with the lesser rabble amongst us. Apple is making money hand-over-fist and doesn’t need to sulley its hands on money handled by the unwashed masses. If you want to bask in the glow of things Apple you’re just going to have to do without and spring for that WinXP upgrade. Use your kid’s or grand kid’s college money if you have to or do without medication for a month or two but, don’t look for any sympathy from Mr. Jobs.
March 4th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
It was supposed to be sarcasm. Perhaps a bit to obscure.
March 5th, 2005 at 1:41 am
It’s sarcasm, look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
March 5th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
learn how to couch your remarks properly and perhaps it wont be so obscure…you missed a good opportunity…
March 6th, 2005 at 12:27 am
It’s only obscure for you, smarty pants.
March 6th, 2005 at 12:53 am
lol, I think I may have let my rage over the story cloud my perception
March 6th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
As an AAPL stock holder I am completely on Apple’s side on this. Freedom of the press, in essence, exists to protect the citizens of the United States from a government that might supress political viewpoints that do not support the “state message”. That is not what is happening here. Someone breached a legal contract with Apple in revealing Apple’s “trade secrets”. Knowing what products Apple are going to deliver next is not a public right. Revealing Apple’s trade secrets can cause huge financial damage to Apple and it’s stock holders. Revealing these secrets when you are under contract not to constitutes a kind of theft of intellectual property. A person such as Nick DePlume who knowingly participates or even solicits this theft is guilty of participating in a crime just as assuredly as someone volunteering to giving a bank robber running out of a bank a getaway ride.