gumsie wrote:
The market, and that includes Apple, do give you a choice. Buy a Dell. See the thing about living in the the land of the free is just that. Everybody else is free to do things you don't agree with and that includes corporations.
You really believe what you write? You think you have a choice? In germany we have many mobile contractors but only 4 carriers. At least we can switch between those and the sub-contractors as much as we like but is that really a lot of choice? In the US of A the situation is much worse. If you buy a phone often you can't even use it with all of the carriers. Sorry Sir, but the US model is a complete fail. It is dictated by very few companies and what you guys pay for an SMS is ridiculous. I wonder why US citizens accept this? Because they get told the same old lie that they'd have the choice? This is simply not true.
Whichever market you'll look at you'll only find very few players. And privacy wise they are all the same. Now explain to me where you see ANY choice.
The myth of the land of the free is just that - a myth.
Even corporations are not free to do anything. E.g. what facebook does is often illegal under german law. And politics are just starting to become aware of all those privacy issues. Not only with Facebook, but as you see in this thread also Apple. And again: talking about choice: Why wouldn't Apple give customers a choice to delete the Mac AppStore? Yes, because they want to make money and force people into their closed system.
But yet again, that might even be illegal in germany. Not being able to remove software (Android does this too) is one of the worst marketing concepts ever. All that is generated is frustrated customers that have to deal with badly programmed software they don't even wanna use.
gumsie wrote:
We have a choice to buy a Mac and the software on it. We don't have a choice to be governed by the laws of the land.
You don't want it, don't buy it.
This sir, is hardcore BS. Even the laws that are made by politicians might be unconstitutional. The whole thing is a little more complex as you see it. "Don't want - don't buy". You hopefully understand that a system consists of components - may those be hardware or software. And arguing about software behaviour is what this forum is here for, right? So I don't get what you are trying to say. I really don't.
gumsie wrote:
Have a look at Apples Privacy Policy
, then write them an email asking whether storeagent communications adhere to them if you must.
Then leave feedback telling them about how much you disagree with the behaviour, (but are nevertheless still using it?).
You are aware that someone in this thread did just that? And never heard back from Apple? This is completely naive. I disagree and I am NOT using the Mac AppStore. I have not spent a single cent in this sh*tty system. And have never opened it and will never open it. What I did was uninstall it via CleanMyMac. Completely. But having to use such a tool at all, might again be illegal in some countries. So I think it's well worth it mentioning this fact and also through this thread raising awareness of some users who are actually able to think and not believe the lie of "you have the choice" "you don't have to buy it".
Start thinking, right?