Prosthetic Conscience

Jason McBrayer's weblog; occasional personal notes and commentary

Mon, 01 Oct 2007

Apple-induced Stockholm Syndrome

See here for the source of this well-turned phrase. It ought to replace “reality distortion field” in the Mac community’s lexicon.

Basically, I’m amazed by iPhone users’ collective reaction to the bricking of their phones the same way I’m amazed by the reaction on Daily Kos to the Andrew Meyers tasing. In both cases, the affected community is mostly reacting with “hurt us more! We deserve it!”.

Contrast the OpenMoko project. Install whatever you want across a whole range of supported phones. Switch phones keeping the software you installed.

How are you going to hack your life if you can’t even hack your gizmos?

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