SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:47994a69$0$84168
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> such as the inability to do
> have a spare battery (or replace it yourself)

I don't think the bureaucracy at Apple thinks this means anything. The new
Mac Air doesn't have a DVD burner or a changeable battery pack, either.

Apple and some very powerful media interests are, once again like they
tried years ago, to move computer users away from this independently
operating machine "they", the men behind the curtain, cannot
control....into the Java-based, Java-like WebTV appliance that is supposed
to become the next enslaving billboard, not in your living rooms like TV,
but in your pocket, you car, and the other places in your life....even your
office.

Unlike the computing public of the 1980's and 90's when server-based,
corporation-controlled computing was totally rejected by a suspicious user
base, the public, dumbed down by the government school system's agenda,
seems ready to become the victims of a corporate-controlled, sell-it-to-me-
by-the-month system, now.

It's a damned shame what even the brighter bulbs in the box have now
become....slaves to that corporation control.

Think this is bullshit? Turn off an iPhone's access to the corporations
and see what it does......almost nothing.

Even the dumbest PDA still "works" without access.....not any more.