It is very interesting to see how the landscape of technology slowly changes and the businesses that run them change along with it. When apple first entered the world is it heralded the Think different, be different attitude in order to compete. Now that it is a global giant, it seems as though it's tagline doesn't count any more, but no one seems to care.
As Daniel Roth says the Android is 'a free, open source mobile platform that any coder could write for and any handset maker could install....would have the spirit of Linux and the reach of Windows' (2008 p.1). It is now Google of all people pretending to be "free" and support the grassroots nature of the internet. It seems as though Google, who seem to go one way by trying their hardest to commercialize YouTube and then do a complete 180 turn by creating (supporting) such an open source software.
Seems to me Apple have lost their identity as the smashers of Big Brother and have now become Big Brother themselves. Even more interesting is that even after all the talk in class about how everyone likes the idea of "free information" and back people fighting the establishments, over 80% of the students laptops are apple, probably 90% of their phones are iPhones...so does freedom really mean anything to the general population?
Roth, Daniel 2008, 'Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web', 23 June, Wired, accessed 14/10/2011, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/ff_android
Haha yeah i find this funny also how everyone has jumped on the apple bandwagon. After getting an Android phone I would never go back! I love being able to customise it the way I like and not having to go through stupid itunes to put music on it,
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