Playstation Network hacked. What a shame...

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Great video! Seems like a good rational bloke .

But overall my feeling is as much as i love Sony and the ps3 i still like to see the big boys get stepped on once in a while. I only wish it happened to Apple instead.

Well, while companies like Apple and Microsoft might product products you don't like, produce adverts which appeal to dumb public and in the later case have engaged in anti-competitive practices... The don't don't sue their users.

Looks at Apple's approach to Hackintosh... They turn a blind eye. Or Jail breaking... They simply lock out the hack in the next OS revision... They don't sue or "go after" the users who do these things. Apple are a bit brighter than incurring the wrath of the hacker community.

Sony did this to themselves, it's the users I feel sorry for.

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Yes but appples approach has always been to use/steal other peoples IP and then settle afterwards.
 

That's a bit harsh, I can't think of any particular example of Apple doing that... They seem to simply buy any company that has IP they want, portal player, touchworks, PA semi, lala, NeXT, etc... Then put out a product based on the tech about 2 years later...

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So they didnt steal the user interface for the original ipods from Creative then ?

Quite right, it seems they did! Well that seems to have taught them a lesson then, as they have been pretty careful since.

-Edit- a link for anyone interested: http://i.tuaw.com/2006/08/23/apple-pays-100m-to-creative-in-patent-lawsuit-settlement/

To give apple their dues, the patent violations were inherited by Apple when they bought PortalPlayer which the iPod is based on

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P.S. On the weekend i installed MacBuntu. It's great! It feels nothing like Linux. You being an Apple fanboy, I was just wondering what you think of it compared to the real thing. It's the first time i have ever used OSX and not been irritated. But i admit the rotating cube might be a bit out of place though...

Meh, an OS is an OS... Little more than a pretty app launcher... I'll use whatever has the Apps I need/want...

My preference for Apple comes from my desire to program in Objective-C which is the language OSX and its derivatives are written in

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If you find yourself having difficulty hating Sony... Have a read about the server they used to store their customers Personal Information...

WTF Sony!?!

http://consumerist.com/2011/05/security-expert-sony-knew-its-software-was-obsolete-months-before-psn-breach.html