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

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

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.
 
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?
 
Clrabbit said:
zecias said:
i think most people are voting for apple because they sell crap products and not because they are actually evil =/

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.
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....
 
Guest said:
Can we get Samsung on that list for Keylogger? That is my vote!
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!?
 
zecias said:
Clrabbit said:
zecias said:
i think most people are voting for apple because they sell crap products and not because they are actually evil =/

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.
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.

Sadly, probably... that's why Dell has votes XD.
(How Dell got on this list I will never know working in PC repair for so many years if any PC OEM deserves to be here it's Gateway.)
 
Thanks for the Link. It's so true. i see people in my school (cause Apple and macs are the "thing" at my school...) mindlessly buying macs, thinking that they're getting good value for their money or that the extra expenses are worth it because they think the hardware is of very good quality. The only thing Macs are good for is the software that Apple makes. But even then there's usually software that might be close to... maybe IMovie and things like that.
 
EA has been ruining successful franchise games for years now, therefore, they get my vote.
 
The United States Government, but I might be out there in limbo by myself on this issue.
Considering the US government isn't anything remotely resembling a "technology company", you might be simply posting to share your opinion. Either from "limbo" or perhaps elsewhere in space.
 
sheep are out in force today, i guess apple are 'evil' because they are popular or something? Or you can't afford it?

voted adobe for flash
 
sheep are out in force today, i guess apple are 'evil' because they are popular or something? Or you can't afford it?
Follow the watch.....shiny isn't it?........, now count backwards from 100......99.....98...., you are getting hungry......, hungry......., hungry...... for another Apple product. Now when I snap my fingers......you will wake up refreshed, feeling the need to spend too much money, and rush down to the iStore and buy something you will spend many happy hours trying to find a use for later.
 
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