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[News] Apple Harasses Journalists Again

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Apple Urges Wired To Remove Hackintosh Video, Article

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| It appears that Apple is not just going after Psystar when it comes to 
| running Mac OS X on non-Apple branded computers. Wired's gadget blog was 
| running a story, accompanied by a video, demonstrating how to install Mac OS 
| X on a non-Apple netbook. After Apple contacted Wired, the website took down 
| the video.    
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http://www.osnews.com/story/20773/Apple_Urges_Wired_To_Remove_Hackintosh_Video_Article


Recent:

Apple copies Microsoft tactics in Itunes row

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| Sam Odio, operator of bluwiki, did what Jobs' Mob demanded only because he
| said he lacked the money to take on the fruit-themed toymaker.
|
| He told AP that, when a lawyer calls you up and implicitly threatens
| litigation that would bankrupt your little project, you obviously have no
| choice but to comply.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-copies-microsoft-itunes


Related:

Podcaster rejeceted because it duplicates iTunes functionality

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| Today I finally got a reply from Apple about the status of Podcaster.
|
| Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it
| duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
|
| That's right folks, it duplicates the functionality of the desktop version of
| iTunes.
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http://almerica.blogspot.com/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html


As App Store banning continues, iPhone developers protest

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| Developers have already voiced their concern over Apple’s unwritten rules of
| what can and cannot be sold through the App Store, but the situation has
| become even more dire with this most recent round of rejections. It's
| prompted some, such as Fraser Speirs, developer of iPhone Flickr browser
| Exposure, to say that they’ll cease developing for the platform until Apple
| clarifies the rules.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/135541/2008/09/appstore_banning.html


Apple Takes the "Tris" Out of iPhone Tetris

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| Now a student named Noah Witherspoon that created an iPhone Tetris knock-off
| called simply "Tris," has been threatened with legal action by The Tetris
| Company. In what he refers to as "petty bullying," the company had Apple
| contact Witherspoon and had him pull the game from the iTunes App Store.
| Apple even told him that they'd take action themselves if he didn't comply.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/26/apple-takes-the-tris-out-of-iphone-tetris


OpenClip, she is dead

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| For those of you who do not remember - or do not care to remember - OpenClip
| was supposed to be an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard
| functionality to the iPhone. While I’m thinking that if Apple wanted to
| implement copy/paste into the iPhone they would have done it already or will
| do it soon, OpenClip was a noble effort to work around the limitations of OS
| X on the iPhone.
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/25/openclip-she-is-dead/


How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

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| Apple is a mega corporation that nearly smashed the reputation of
| two individuals with bogus claims of fraud. It didn't matter
| that they weren't the ones pulling the trigger because they
| were pulling all the strings.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451


Apple Bullies Bloggers, Again

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| Apple has a history of using lawyers against bloggers. There was
| the now infamous Think Secret lawsuit, which may have had merit.
| But they also engage in clearly superfluous, bullying tactics as well.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The offending download page is here (the software has now been 
| removed). Blogger Paul O'Brien simply linked to this download
| page and included a screenshot of the user interface and also
| received a cease & desist letter from Apple's lawyers.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/13/apple-bullies-bloggers-again/


Apple Arrogance Unleashed!

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| But the only problem with Apple is that it has no gratitude. Or humility. Or 
| generosity. Or manners. 
| 
| I'm a big fan of Apple products. But there's no escaping the fact that Apple 
| has always been, well, arrogant. Which was fine -- their superiority complex 
| has always been both partially deserved and one of the company's motivations 
| to strive for better things. But in the past few months, the company seems to 
| have crossed some kind of invisible line, now brazenly pissing off not just 
| competitors, but its most devoted fans, closest partners and industry 
| supporters.      
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3703216


Apple failing to understand open source

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| There is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that
| cost is loss of goodwill in the community. That loss is more
| expensive in the long run than Apple realizes.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html


Mozilla exec calls Apple's Safari plan 'duopolistic'

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| In the speech predicting how Apple would expand its market share, Jobs showed 
| a slide with Safari dominating almost a quarter of the market--a market 
| shared only with a single other browser, Internet Explorer.  
| 
| Lilly says he doesn't believe that this was an omission or simplification, 
| but instead an indication that Jobs is hoping to steal people who use Firefox 
| and other smaller browsers in order to run a "duopoly" with Redmond.  
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191562.html


Researcher Blasts Apple for 'Negligent' Patching

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| A researcher who went public last month with the first iPhone vulnerability 
| says Apple's updating of the open-source components it uses in Mac OS X is 
| inexcusable and negligent.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135589-c,macos/article.html


Apple Rumor Site to Shut Down in Settlement

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| Apple on Thursday put to rest the last of a series of lawsuits it brought in 
| a losing and costly effort to put a stop to Web leaks about its product 
| plans.  
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/technology/21apples.html?ref=business
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