It feels awkward now because Apple is no longer the underdog but you can see how that personality made them succeed against all predictions. You may not like that personality (if a corporation can have a personality) but is easy to see how some people may feel identified with it.
Why shouldn't they? Publishers aren't printing books. Apple does the distribution (electronically) and the payments. This leaves publishers to add what value? Marketing? Editing?
or suing all other phone manufacturers for some stupid UI element.
Stupid to you but it's the little details that make a good design a great one. Apple had their UX employees designing the buttons, getting the scroll velocity right, giving the right amount of bounce to a page change. Those engineers got compensated for their work, now Apple wants to be compensated for its work.
For real? We're discussing the company that just announced the largest non-energy profit in history, right? That has $100 billion in the bank? That is almost certain to continue growing that profit for at least a few years to come?
My heart breaks for them. They just want to be compensated.
But yes, as a society and culture there is a natural disdain for excessive success ($100 billion in cash reserves? That is deeply unsettling), and as a natural course both the government and the courts are going to be less favourable to Apple.
Apple has never demanded %30 of all of anyone's revenue.
Apple has never crushed anybody small with their iTunes stores-- on the contrary, they've created a massive boom in small software publishing, and soon small book publishing.
>suing all other phone manufacturers for some stupid UI element.
All those phone manufacturers stole patented inventions. They cheated, and they deserve to pay. If you don't like the patent system, work to get it reformed... but I promise you you haven't thought out the consequences of that, and you wouldn't like the results.
>The bigger their profit the more they come across as grossly petty and greedy.
People like you have been hating on Apple for the past 3 decades. Always hating with lies and misrepresentations.
Its not any different now that Apple is successful, only one thing is true-- Apple's success has proven your predictions wrong, year after year.
Remember when you said the iPad was "just a bigger iPhone"?
Remember when you said the iPhone would flop without a physical keyboard?
Remember when you said the iPod was lame?
Whose laughing now?
Serioulsy, I'm tired of these ignorant apple bashing posts. HN is going to hell because its overrun with people who practice an ideology of socialism-- pro-google because its "Free" and anti-Apple because they actually innovate and have the audacity to charge for their products.
HN is going to hell because its overrun with
people who practice an ideology of socialism