Restrained_Nicholas

Who gives a flying hoot whether it was good or bad for Apple. Stealing poor people's healthcare and giving the money to the rich was horrendous public policy.

We were promised increased investment, not stock buybacks for Apple shareholders. That didn't happen.

Let's not forget the various kinds of PCI that came out with a flurry - different voltages, lanes, types, whatever. They were the most devastating of all the changes, because among other things they made a lot of perfectly good $10K+ Digidesign Pro Tools systems obsolete (among other digital audio tools that were only a few hundred dollars). Expensive computer cards are a very short-lived investment.

Today the danger is more from server-side changes requiring software updates that only run on the latest hardware. Personal example: DirecTV's iPad app needed an iPad 2 only three months after I'd bought an original iPad.

So much for the argument that the system will continue to work, you just can't update it.

To be clear, there was no debate. This was muscled through by a bunch of greedy piggies out to smash and grab the Internet along with everything else in the country. They ignored the public opposition.

At least this is being fought at the state level in blue states.

"For all of the hue and cry over the repeal of net neutrality, the disaster scenarios presented by critics remain, for now, mostly hypothetical"

For all the hue and cry over the foxes who just broke into the coop, the disaster scenarios presented remain, for now, mostly hypothetical.

False equivalence is not objective journalism.

FireWire still works beautifully. You just need a $29 adapter for current Macs.