Apple has always embodied the opposite of Google’s motto. Although Google may have faltered at their mission of ‘don’t be evil,’ Apple has always stuck to 2/3 of the same motto (remove the word ‘don’t’). This is especially true when it comes to freedom and choice. Valuing freedom is exclusive to valuing Apple to the extent of how you have to hate one if you care at all about the other.

Seriously, I think Apple’s problem is that Microsoft is losing their standing after Vista and it’s successors, while more and more people are getting exposed to Linux through friends and Android. MS was Apple’s main ally, and not only because Redmond funnelled money to Cupertino in the late ’90′s to stave off a well-deserved bankruptcy. Apple may have sucked when it came to choice, freedom, and versatility, but they offered reliability to people that were sick of constant BSOD’s. Apple didn’t invent reliability any more than they invented rounded corners, but much of the public has thought that their only two choices were a Macintoy or a Windows PC for decades. As more and more realize that the shaky nature of Windows is a Windows issue instead of a non-Apple issue, they will look to see what other stable OS’s are out there.

As I’ve said before, I was a MS fanboy early on, when I liked the choice of the PC environment over the prison garden of the Macintoy. That started to wear off when MS integrated kernel, desktop, and browser, to become intolerable about a decade ago. If some people I trusted had not prodded me to at least try FOSS, I might have actually considered joining the cult to completely give up freedom in exchange for reliability. The cost was right, though. I could take an old, semi-discarded PC for free, and that showed me how Win and Mac will never approach the performance bar set and defined by FOSS.

Whether it makes a difference or not, though, I am glad to see liars taken to task for defaming others.

This was nice news for the morning wake-up:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/19/apple_samsung_did_not_copy_us/

So, a judge is going to make Apple take public action to address the lies that they have told in court and to the media. It’s a start…at least it’s a start.