Weekend Open Forum: The most 'evil' tech company?

they forgot the government but i could go with apple

I think you're confusing, "evil bureaucracy" with "evil technocracy"....

Besides, if they included, "the government", since Techspot is on the "worldwide web", it would come down to a bitter, contentious debate. Something like, "our government is more evil than yours. (Like that was a good thing to argue over).

You forgot, "All Cellphone Companies"

Oh my... I wished I could pick four companies.

1. Electronic Arts - they treat us customers like "consumers", not like "people". 20% of a disc is pure DRM - also known as "consumer control software".
2. Sony - I will not forgive Sony until they start recognizing "personal success" - Sony have been claiming copyright after copyright because anonymous piano players on YouTube play common songs too good! Not to mention Mr. Hotz.
3. Apple - we know why.
4. Adobe - because they act all pompous and try to own the entire market for software, and if it's not theirs, they buy it (#coughDreamweaver#) - they are running the market for profit making software too much! That market needs more competition!

Of course, the 1-4 list is just my personal opinion.

For evil and most deceitful I voted for facebook since shortly after joining a few months ago my gmail account was promptly hacked. First breach I'd ever encountered, dropped facebook and then changed all of my online passwords ... no problem since.

Except of course for the email I got this past week from Sony that my PSN data had been hacked. Thankfully no credit card information involved, perhaps they should have invested a fraction of the money they've spent on DRM for computer system security.

You're right, Adobe is brutal. The scary thing is they have their "Adobecorp" equivalent of the "Applecorp".

For example they hold the belief "firmly", that if Adobe's video algorithms don't work with existing video drivers, then all the drivers are written wrong. It's kind of difficult to reason with them.

I'm sure wireless carriers and cable operators would rank high in the list, I just didn't include them because their business is limited to certain markets, unlike the other companies listed whose products or services are available pretty much globally.

@Captain... funny that you mention Twitter, I thought of including it as a counterpart to Facebook but then I remembered an article explaining how they challenged a U.S. court order demanding they turn over information about a number of people connected to WikiLeaks. More importantly they did this while giants like PayPal, Mastercard, Visa, and Bank of America complied without hesitation. I thought they deserve some credit for that and I haven't heard of any controversies from them.

Here's the article if you are interested:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/

I agree. The list up here just seems sad in comparison.

i think most people are voting for apple because they sell crap products and not because they are actually evil =/

*Punches you in the *****.

Sony came out with BR before Toshiba came out with HD-DVD. Not only this, but the BR format was created with long time partners, Phillips, and soon after it's official creation they formed the Blu-ray Disc Association. Not only this, but in mid 2005, both parties attempting to do everything in their power to avoid a format war but failed due to incompatibilities.

Sony was never acting alone and Sony didn't create the format (of which they really didn't do anyway) just to kick Toshiba in the shins.

I hate when you n00bs cannot so much as do the tiniest of research before you start mouthing off...

I'd recommend taking a closer look at apple and their history and future plans, and a good hard look at what they are right now.
Crap products is the thin shiny outer layer Apple's evil runs all the way to the core.

Apple might attach you from anus to mouth in their next invention...staying away from them...

Wow, just one? But who?

Apple, with their arrogance, snob factor pricing, undisclosed location tracking, and generally wanting total control over everything that comes within 300 feet of one of their devices?

Sony, with their constant barrage of proprietary media formats that no one cares about because there is already something good enough that costs less, rootkits on audio CDs, SecuROM, removal of features for which customers have already paid (leading up to the hacker controversy), and the most recent security breach?

Ubisoft, with their increasingly annoying and draconian DRM (for which they rely on the warez scene for "patches? when it breaks), and releasing an intentionally broken game then suing because it worked as designed?

Facebook, for their never-ending pursuit of making all of your information public (and profiting from it)?

EA, Intel, Google, Microsoft for being some of the biggest kids on the block?

In my opinion , the big winner (loser?) is Activision and Bobby Kotick, whose stated goal is ??to take all the fun out of making video games", for running franchises into the ground, disbanding teams in an effort to squeeze every last possible cent out of a game, and stealing withholding team bonuses from one of their most profitable games.

EA - if you are a PC gamer no more needs to be said; I hate EA

Apple - the over-priced hype and the followers who believe the propaganda that Apple can do no wrong

No doubt in my mind that Oracle is the most evil of all. Everything they touch is destroyed. Java, Sun, OpenOffice, Acorde imaging system... Should I go on?

Can we get Samsung on that list for Keylogger? That is my vote!

never denied that; lemme rephrase it.
apple is evil, but i think most people are voting for apple because they sell crap products, not because they are evil.

Toss up between apple Sony and att! I wish they would just all burn though....

Considering there was no keylogger, why would you vote for that?

I think I'll go for Facebook. Recently I wanted to post a response somewhere, and saw that I was already logged in, apparently because I was logged into Facebook. So I posted, and saw that alongside my name it posted my age. What does that have to do with anything, and why would it tell people such details? I'm sure it's also that forum software's fault, but Facebook shouldn't make this available in the first place.

EA are not that bad, and yes I am a PC gamer.

Apple are most voted yet people rave Apple products, ''Look at my Iphone , look what my Iphone can do''

Yea buzz off Apple products and the people that use them, I bet half the people that voted Apple have at least 1 Apple product. Only product I ever owned was an Ipod shuffle it was a gift and it BROKE! List is very short, more companys could be put on there. Like where is Steam, Packard Bell, ETC could name loads

Y thos companys!?