Control Issues: Why Apple Doesn’t Want You to Use Linux

“Last time I checked in, I had jailbroken my iPhone to install
the unofficial Google Voice mobile app. (You can find all my
updates in my Migration from Mac OS X post category.) This week
I’ve been taking a closer look at Linux–and discovered
yet another Apple tentacle wrapped around my right to choose my own
OS: iTunes, and Apple’s ongoing refusal to port it to
Linux.

“I dove into Linux at the suggestion of several commenters who
urged me to take a look at the open-source end of the OS world
before deciding to go over to the Microsoft “dark
side.” Why not? I figured. One-half of my goal is never again
to have to pay several hundred extra dollars for specially branded
hardware just to run my OS of choice, and the other half is to
remove myself from Steve Jobs’ heavy-handed control of the
applications I choose to install there.

“Now, Linux is to Apple the way that Protestantism is to
Catholicism: there’s little secretive mysticism, and lots of
free choice.”

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