Posts filed under “Thinking Outside the WTF”
One Paragraph Blog: People Like DRM
…as long as it’s cheap. Ever since the RIAA crackdown on illegal downloading, there’s been quite a drop in CD sales. And iTunes sales have gone up substantially. But the reason isn’t that users feel that DRM is bad, just that illegal downloading and iTunes are both cheaper. The Kindle not selling enough? Maybe because [...]
Reason iPhone is the best smartphone ever? No one else makes a smart phone.
(changed for readability) Me: I hate windows mobile. Tim: Why? Me: In what universe do you get a smart phone that’s too smart to make calls with? Tim: Yours must be defective, i’ve never had a problem with that. Me: No, it’s not. I’ll explain. Me: My mom got a palm treo 750. Me: This [...]
Transparently Asinine
There are some things that are so obviously demonstrate that companies hate consumers that we take them for granted. Here’s one all-too-familiar example: The Terms of Service, or TOS, are a standard prerequisite for signing up for almost everything on the internet, from Amazon to Neopets to Flickr. This document usually contains all the rules [...]
Thinking outside the box
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