[ale] Cory Doctorow, right again

[James Sumners]

It has applications that are shipped with it. And you can use webapps
all day long. You don't _have_ to use the AppStore. But if you do use
it, then you still have to decide if you trust the developer. If you
install something that seems scummy in the description (poorly
translated descriptions, bad reviews, etc.) then that's on you. It
isn't the fault of anyone, or anything, else.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 13:15, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 01:14 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>> Don't trust the software? Don't install it. An iPhone is totally
>> usable without ever opening the AppStore application.
>
> What would be the point of a smartphone without applications?!
>
>        --- Mike

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James Sumners
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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