(Star Trek reference: Trelane from "The Squire of Gothos".)
Posted on 05/18/2010 10:33:04 PM PDT by It's me
CUPERTINO, California, May 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers, says his company will not be a party to the pornography industry and hopes that the iPad and iPhone revolution will help lead to a porn-free world.
Jobs reiterated his position in a heated e-mail exchange with Ryan Tate, a writer for Gawker.com, which follows news and gossip in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Tate, who admitted that he was home alone and slightly inebriated at the time, took issue with a television ad calling the iPad a “revolution” and fired off an e-mail to Jobs.
“If Dylan [American songwriter Bob Dylan is one of Jobs’ favorite musicians] was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution?’ Revolutions are about freedom,” Tate wrote, not expecting a response from Jobs.
However, Jobs did respond to Tate, triggering an e-mail duel. “Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” responded Jobs. “The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.”
However, Tate accused Jobs of "imposing" his "morality" by having Apple forbid pornographic applications for iPad. “I don’t want ‘freedom from porn.’ Porn is just fine! And I think my wife would agree,” fired back Tate - who later said he regretted mentioning his wife.
Jobs shot back, “You might care more about porn when you have kids.”
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Thanks, Trib...I’ll check him out!
See ya’,
Ed
Wow... Okay... You are the one that seems to have a problem. That’s okay, you can overcome it if you just let thing go a bit...
Actually, you really do sound like a TRUE Apple lover with your rant. Do you really even believe what you are saying or is it just an act?
I really don’t care whether you like PC’s or Apple, I was stating a fact about costs. It does seem that I’ve hit a nerve though - seems a common thread among Apple enthusiasts.
Too bad that Apple folks and others can’t carry on a common sense conversation though...
Your statements have no bearing on Apple or on my statements to the obvious, you are simply Apple insane...
I did say that I feared you were unworthy of the benefit of the doubt, thanks for the open honest and sincere reply proving my postulate. Now, you get to have the more direct response.
You are an anti-apple sick FUD spreading Troll who has not the slightest interest in reasoned discourse and who has posted nothing but 100+ posts of lies and totally insulting commentary with a design and purpose to libel and attack Mac and Apple and its users.
Its people with your attitude, and poor interpersonal skills who are doubtlessly representing conservatism in this same one sided and nastily over aggressive chucked full of lies and innuendo style, who are responsible for our political losses.
I regret taking even 10 minutes of my life in attempt to reason with you.
Apple is simply a computer manufacturer! Why are you taking it to the religious extreme? They are in the business to make money (yours)... Why does that bother you so much?
“Its people with your attitude, and poor interpersonal skills who are doubtlessly representing conservatism in this same one sided and nastily over aggressive chucked full of lies and innuendo style, who are responsible for our political losses.”
Ah, now that you amplified your complaints - taking it out on my political extremes. You are one who thinks that buying Apple is like buying political value. Boy are you wrong!
I am glad that you posted that because I have always thought that Apple buyers were not only liberal but a bit weird with their beliefs. You have thankfully fulfilled all of my beliefs. Thank you,
I really want to add - Just why are you even on FreeRepublic?
Ah, come on Rachel, you know you really want to vent here... I know that you do and everyone who reads this thread wants to hear you response!
Why are you here commenting on FreeRepublic?
(Star Trek reference: Trelane from "The Squire of Gothos".)
So is Jobs going to censor what websites I can go to as well?
Nope. He’s just not going to sell porn in his app store.
Thank you, RachelFaith
You nailed him... exactly... he IS a troll and his lying agenda is plain.
The indignant sob tried to bait me with 4 different insulting pings too.
I went and read about 300 of his previous posts on other subjects. He is a RINO who supports most of the social liberal positions like assisted suicide and is likely a godless weak fiscal conservative too, I couldn’t stand to read much more of his style of personal attacks, insults and badgering others on other threads.
His beef with Mac is that he is an old mainframe 1960’s-70’s Fortran and Cobol type dude who probably is mad that Apple isn’t still using 68020 chips. His PC skills and his politics are stuck in the days of Richard Nixon... he probably still listens to 8 track tapes... LOL
Keep up the good work !!
Thanks for the appreciation.
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” It ain’t your call you fascist. “
Really? It is not his call? He is the creator of the product, you need not buy it, but how is HE the fascist for resiting the profit and sin of pornography?
you’re damn cool!
“I can only surmise that for reasons unknown and obviously deeply personal, you are outright biased and hostile to Mac, Apple, its markets, products, services and users.”
Yo! Right here.
When I were mucho much younger, people tended to clump into either Elvis people or Beatles people (which we knew before Tarentino was even born), and also into new car people or hot rod people.
People in the hot rod camp often built, or at least heavily modified, their own cars. “If you didn’t build it, it’s not really yours.”
If something went wrong, they didn’t *want* to call a tow truck and take their cars to the mechanic. They *wanted* to fix it themselves.
(”Everybody makes fun of a redneck—till their car breaks down.” Larry the Cable Guy.)
And they didn’t want to go through the new-car dealer and pay top-dollar for their parts. They wanted to go to the junk yard, or the J.C. Whitney catalog, or even use a drill press and lathe to make the bleedin’ thing.
Over on the other side of town, Suzy Silk-Stocking had a pink corvette with a 283 cubic inch engine and an automatic transmission. Her boyfriend, Heir McMoneybags, Junior, had a brand-new 1970 Dodge Super Bee with a 440 cubic inch engine and four on the floor. Neither of them even knew how to check their oil. To the hot rod people, they were objects of ridicule.
Now, we have 90% of computer-using humanity clumped into the PC camp, and 10% or so in the Apple camp, and it reminds me of the Elvis/Beatles and new-car/hot-rod dichotomies.
I haven’t bought a computer since that new 486 machine in the mid 1990s. I just upgrade as my mood (and liquidity) dictate. Of course, a new motherboard and CPU is pretty major, but drives, RAM, cards, etc., I install or remove to suit myself.
I have cases I like. Really like. When I get a new motherboard and CPU, I don’t throw away usable stuff, like the old computer’s TV card, RAM, graphics card, fans, power supply, screws, cables, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I don’t throw stuff away until it doesn’t work any more...or maybe a friend needs it.
Guess what I’m saying here is that Mac users tend to have the same unearned air of superiority that Suzy Silk-Stocking and Heir McMoneybags, Junior, had and, as a hot-rod person, I want to be able to do it myself. I don’t want to pay top dollar for dealer parts. I want to know every screw and cable, and I want to be able to fix it myself.
A Mac doesn’t do what **I** want done as well or as quickly as or in just the way that I want it done, and it does a lot of stuff I don’t want or need done. I don’t want to pay too much for something that doesn’t please me.
And finally, nothing rubs me the wrong way like “idiot-proofing,” and Apple is the throned monarch of that. It permeates their corporate thinking; it is one of their prime directives. For that reason alone, even if Macs actually were superior to PCs, I still wouldn’t buy them.
I would also assert that my biases against and hostility toward Apple are at least as respectable as Mac users’ biases against and hostility toward PCs.
If none of that is clear, try cruising on down to your local hot-rod show some weekend.
All of the people on here arguing about freedom in regards to the availability of porn to them missed that message. They can go buy something else to watch their porn. Unless they are saying that they want to “force” Apple to allow porn on their devices. If that's the case, than they are the last people that should be discussing “freedom”.
Bingo!
It isn’t fascism to force a computer company to design a computer a certain way? What happened to a free market? If a product does not offer what you want, buy something else. It’s called competition. You can’t force them to make it the way you want it. You can influence them by buying the competitions products.
As a business owner, Steve Jobs can do what he damned well pleases. Now that is freedom.
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