Should You Feel Guilty Owning an iPhone?

Toms Hardware ^ | 5/28/2010 | Wolfgang Gruener

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I love my IPhone but I dislike Apples aggressive conrol of what software operates on it.As a result its the Only Apple product I will be buying."

That "aggressive control" is what's kept malware off the iPhone. Compare to the botnet that set itself up among 8,000 Android phones a few months ago when a seemingly useful free weather app turned out to be a trojan horse.

The security implications of more than a hundred million powerful, always-connected, location-aware, pocketable machines whose users don't think of them as computers are serious and wide-ranging. Apple's punctilious review of apps from the source code up shows they are taking this seriously. And that, FRiend, is why they won't allow third-party development tools anymore. Their own superb coding environment, XCode, is free. Their app approval process is thorough. Be glad.

[Poser]

I feel so guilty... NOT!

[kempo]

Every person I know that owns an iPhone is as conservative as I am. The liberals I know are too stupid to know how to use.

[mlo]

As long as the workers take those jobs by free choice, there’s no moral problem. An emerging industrial country isn’t going to start out with working conditions similar to ours. They have to work through the curve, just as our societies did.

But if those workers are indeed slaves and are not free to go back to the farm or take another job, then there is something wrong with taking advantage of their slavery.

Honestly, I don’t know which is true. But if they really are worker slaves and aren’t free to leave, then there’s probably a place for our government to sanction US companies that do business with them.

[CIBvet]

40,000 factories ... yes, 40,000 U.S.Factories, were moved out of our country to access desperate 3rd World slave-laborers, just since the passage of NAFTA.

No decent paying jobs available for our unemployed today?? Awww, shut up you complainers... Don't you rabid 'Free Traders' remember what they promised us ... "We're a SERVICE ECONOMY now Comrade."