Isn't it ironic that APPLE'S "revolutionary" 1984 commercial accurately pictured what APPLE and it's users would become! It is the exact opposite of how Apple wanted to be viewed ane perceived by the world and consumers: With Apple's highly restrictive "controls," massive "user restrictions" and APPLE'S proprietary, "fill in the blank"-"EVERYTHING;" Apple litterally BECAME what it purportedly despised most as presented in their "ground breaking" commercial!
Given what we now know about Apple, it's "business model," what it has become, and how it views/manipulates it's "users"/customer base;"Anyone watching their "1984 commercial" today would perceive the hammer-throwing heroine as the ubiquitous open-source PC come to set the mine-nummed, conformist Apple users FREE from "Big-Brother" Steve Jobs and the APPLE "machine".
My mother got my new bike out of the car and I was to ride it home for the last 2-blocks while my family watched from the car.
I got a shaky start, but I was going, and then I started staring at the back end of a parked car - no matter how I tried not to, I ran into that bumper. My ride only lasted 20 seconds.
Apple ran into the bumper.
America ran into the bumper.
You spout so many anti-Apple myths in your screed, Jmouse, it is obvious you don't use any Apple products. Can you specify anything at all that is Apple proprietary in your "anything" category? How about some specifics the highly restrictive controls? Massive user controls? Name the ones there are no easily accessed alternatives. Please.