1. 22-09-2007 08:47

Lies, damn lies, and Safari

Safari on Windows is not just insecure and unstable, it is deliberately deceptive:�
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When you select the option “Accept Cookies: NEVER”, it does not honor that: it stores cookies permanently ANYWAY. (That is why the “show cookies” button is disabled… so you don’t notice that you are being lied to). Apple was sued in 2004 for deliberately using an Eminem song in an iTunes commercial after permission had been denied… so the company appears to have an official policy of acting in bad faith. [1]* Apple’s “Safari wardrobe malfunction” is likewise deliberate–because if it was not, the “Accept Cookies: NEVER” option would be disabled too (not just the “show cookies” option).�
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If, by fraudulent labeling, your software claims that it does something which it does not, isn’t that false advertising? (And for the purpose of litigation, does it even matter if Apple’s false advertising was intended for marketing gains, or for corporate espionage?) It’s just not credible that this was a simple mistake–and now that we have prima facie evidence of the company’s dishonesty, we have to wonder if Safari is collecting OTHER information about our online activities and transmiting it back to Apple. They could be electronically sifting through all of this to determine who is reading what… or who is talking about what Apple is doing. The possibility is not mere fantasy, because we already learned that Apple’s management is psychotically-paranoid about “leaks” when they threatened to sue bloggers and website operators just for talking about what might be included in the next version of MacOS (leopard). [2]*�
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Apple’s management has clearly gone insane: they are overwhelmed with paranoia about software competition, without any justification. What can realistically “compete” with MacOS? Linux? —Different versions of Linux have incompatible applications and installers! That’s not a threat. —Windows, then? …Ridiculous! The basic Windows architecture is fatally-flawed, and Microsoft is too busy trying to fix serious bugs at the most fundamental level of the OS to worry about improving the user-interface in the near-term. Windows dominates the market ONLY because Apple won’t license MacOS to PC manufacturers: it is common knowledge that the “appeal” of Windows has always been linked to the freedom to choose a hardware vendor, not any kind of superior technology. Besides, the next Windows release of any significance is years away. As always, it will perform worse and cost more than the previous version (and it will be pathetically unstable). In comparison to the alternatives, MacOS X is already so superior that there is nothing worth hiding about planned improvements… and yet Apple is obsessed with silencing even POSITIVE criticism of it! There is just no polite way to put this: it is absolute madness… and if they are that crazy, there’s no telling what else they might do for the sake of this paranoia. Apple sure has some great engineers, but the company’s directors have lost their minds, and this Safari browser trickery only serves to underscore the point. Honestly, don’t they have anything better to do with their time?!�
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*[1] www.macobserver.com/article/2004/02/24.16.shtml�
*[2] http://apcmag.com/6659/how_apple_controls_the_media_legal_threats_and_bullying

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