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Apple just doesn't get the notion of free speech!
>>For all its skill at designing products that strike an emotional chord with consumers, Apple Computer Inc. sometimes projects a corporate personality as chilly and arrogant as an oil company's.
The latest manifestation of this trait is an Apple lawsuit implicitly aimed at a couple of online publications, Apple Insider and PowerPage, that compile tips, rumors and speculation about the company as sedulously as People counts celebrity stretch marks. The lawsuit concerns their premature publication of details of an unannounced Apple product dubbed Asteroid, which will enable users to record musical instruments directly onto their computers. Equating the disclosures with the theft of trade secrets, Apple sued to ferret out the sites' unidentified sources.
What's rather nervy about the lawsuit is that Apple didn't name the Web sites or their operators as defendants or directly accuse them of theft. Instead, it named 25 "John Does" ? presumably the confidential sources. Apple then subpoenaed PowerPage's e-mails from its Internet service provider, hoping that the messages would help it fill in the blanks.<<
And in a similar fit of pique, Apple punishes book company. (Search on "Apple")
>>Apple Computer has retaliated against the publisher of an upcoming unauthorized biography about Chief Executive Steve Jobs by removing dozens of other technology books sold by the publisher from 104 Apple stores around the world.<<
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Problem before with some of their associates (who sign non discloser and confidentiality papers) with leaking private company information. Also, if information is obtained illegally, there the courts usually do not support the ?journalists? claim of source protection.
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stuff comes from companies like IBM and Motorola. Apple mostly consists of 'style' and good PR. It is not, in my experience, great technology. Why does everyone think that it is?
I saw a column recently on Apple's Shuffle. The main point was that as Steve Jobs introduced it, the audience seemed stunned by the limitations and poor technology. However, after a brief, embarrassed pause, they began cheering wildly. Many Apple fans cheer Apple's technology, not because it is good, but because it is Apple.
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some of the folks that cheer for their political party 
re: your comment: "Many Apple fans cheer Apple's technology, not because it is good, but because it is Apple."
(substitute Republican, Democrat, Liberal, etc. for the word "Apple," and a word such as ideals or platform for the word "technology")
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