It’s bad enough when one person makes some utterly stupid assumptions based on something they are assuming another person is implying but when they make an across the board statement that is so insanely myopic it can be painful to read. Such was the case today when I came across a post by Paul Kafasis [nw] from the Inside iPhone blog where he tries to give a smack down to an article on Time.com written by Anita Hamilton [nw].
Anita’s article is about the fact that the new iPhone Apps store will be charging for some of the software available from 3rd party developers for iPhone users. The sentence in her article that seems to have raised Paul’s ire; along with the folks at Macuser [nw] and The Macalope [nw], was this one - “So why can’t all iPhone apps be free?” which they all took out of context of the whole post making the woman look like she doesn’t have a clue or that she thinks all software should be free.
Now I have read Anita’s post over and over – paragraph by paragraph – and when read in full there is nothing to match up with what these guys are implying. Nada … zip … in fact if you actually take time to read her article without the Apple colored glasses you can see she is strictly reporting a well rounded story. There is nothing to misconstrue from what she wrote about Apple being wrong with putting price tags on any of the software that is available and yet the Mac patrol has come out in full force trying to make a mountain out of something that doesn’t even come close to a mole hill.
What I found really stupid though was Paul’s assertion that this whole free software mentality can be placed directly at the feet of the Windows world
There’s its Windows-centric presumption that no one pays for software.
Excuse me all to hell but the idea of no one pays for software is not a Windows-centric belief. You have to be right batty in the head if you think that. If anything this idea of everything needs to be free is the fault of the whole Web 2.0 movement – of which Mac users currently seem to be in the majority.
Taking a single line out of a post and building a post around it that is nothing short of whacked might make for good traffic but it also shows that the perceived idea that Macheads will attack anything that even mentions Apple in a sentence is true.
Windows-centric my ass.
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