...Apple requires application designers to adhere to a company policy that could be described as “pro-family”
THIS is the free market at work! Rather than cater to the lowest common denominator, Apple has chosen to deliberately exclude certain market segments it deems unworthy of its products. Just as the freedom of association innately requires a freedom to disassociate, so too does a free market necessitate that entities be allowed to refuse to do business with whom they choose.
If Steve Jobs keeps this up, my next phone, computer, and other technology purchases will almost certainly be Apple. And I say this as someone who has never purchased any Apple product before and was about to purchase a Droid phone next month. Apple may even be my next stock purchase.
>>THIS is the free market at work! Rather than cater to the lowest common denominator, Apple has chosen to deliberately exclude certain market segments it deems unworthy of its products. Just as the freedom of association innately requires a freedom to disassociate, so too does a free market necessitate that entities be allowed to refuse to do business with whom they choose. <<
Good luck researching breast cancer if, God forbid, you need to do so. Also, you should pray every night that steve jobs doesn’t decide that Free Republic is a “hate site” to be excluded from the iPad’s access list.
When you place yourself under the yoke of another’s arbitrary decision of what you can and cannot view, you give up your ability to decide for yourself.