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[Boz]

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Maybe this will put to bed the idea that Google+ is a ghost town.

After Apple won an injunction against the Nexus phone for violation of a search patent, fans took to Google+ to express their outrage. The topic #boycottapple was trending this weekend. The #boycottapple posts are still flowing in.

The gist of the complaints are that Android has been evolving on its own, and Apple's complaints are silly. We've rounded up some of the funniest graphics to come out of #boycottapple.

http://www.businessi...1#ixzz1zUwcWD6L


Btw, the protest/movement has spread to Twitter and Reddit like wildfire.

The photos and comments on so many of them are hilarious.

[+Phouchg]

Will change nothing. Nevertheless, iSupport this

[Albert Bonici]

Better to boycott banks or oil or war or phosphourus loaded anti-personnel incendiary rockets

[Miuku.]

Nice to see children take their time to boycott this, raising their voices over murdering hundreds of thousands would seem too trivial.

This is surely more important.

[+Vice]

I'll like this on Facebook, maybe we can fix this like we fixed Kony.

[+techbeck]

Boz, on 02 July 2012 - 21:27, said:

Btw, the protest/movement has spread to Twitter and Reddit like wildfire.

The photos and comments on so many of them are hilarious.

This this image says a lot. Apple was way ahead of the game and its just old/stale IMO. Devices have hardly changed software wise and hardware wise. Its just....boring

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[sanctified]

techbeck, on 02 July 2012 - 21:51, said:

This this image says a lot. Apple was way ahead of the game and its just old/stale IMO. Devices have hardly changed software wise and hardware wise. Its just....boring

My god, this post is sad. By mentioning boringness you are implying that an important part of your life revolves around phones.

Apple has always proposed standardized designs that span across several product generations. It's called style.

[Growled]

Sounds like a lot of fun.

[Boz]

Vice, on 02 July 2012 - 21:48, said:

I'll like this on Facebook, maybe we can fix this like we fixed Kony.

I think Kony is actually successful.. all African countries have created a unified military force to hunt Kony. It's a matter of time when they will catch him and the campaign Kony2012 was actually a very big part of that. I think they already caught his second in charge.

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A celebrity-backed video that went viral helped make Kony's alleged crimes more widely known. Invisible Children produced the "KONY 2012" half-hour documentary, viewed more than 84 million times on YouTube.
The African Union plans to deploy 5,000 troops to hunt down Joseph Kony, the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
Uganda, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo will supply soldiers for the mission, said Francisco Madeira, the African Union's special envoy on the LRA.
He said the mission has support from the United States and 100 combat-ready troops the Pentagon sent to the region in October will assist.

http://articles.cnn....ny?_s=PM:AFRICA

but I digress.

It's about awareness. Awareness puts things in motion by those who can in fact change things.

If anything this will affect Apple's reality distortion field and will cause them some pain in terms of PR. Whether or not it will affect them financially or in some other way is yet to be seen but Apple's biggest weapon is PR and perception and I am almost certain they are not happy about this.

[+techbeck]

sanctified, on 02 July 2012 - 21:57, said:

My god, this post is sad. By mentioning boringness you are implying that an important part of your life revolves around phones.

You got all of that off of my voicing my opinion on one minor subject. Good for you!!!

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Apple has always proposed standardized designs that span across several product generations. It's called style.

Style changes and people get bored of things. Otherwise, we will still be wearing bell bottoms have mullets, and drinking Tab.

Nothing can stay the same and survive forever.

[+Vice]

Maybe we should do the same thing about Google since they are now having a proxy war through Motorola to block the XBOX 360 from being sold?

[virtorio]

This is a larger problem that won't go away until the Courts stop handing out injunctions for ridiculous patents.

But if you think Apple will care (they won't) boycott away.

[sanctified]

techbeck, on 02 July 2012 - 22:04, said:

You got all of that off of my voicing my opinion on one minor subject. Good for you!!!

No. I got all that from seeing Boz and you post the same kind of things over and over again in these forums... and your signature.

Also, we live in an era where style changes are more gradual and disperse. Bauhaus' legacy has taught us that a very concrete and well rationalized design can be timeless. Braun's Dieter Rams design principles are still applied today.

If you take into account the standardization of design proposed by the modernist designers and later the proposal of "multiple inclusive standards" by postmodern designers then yes and no. Yes, style change, no, it does not supersede former designs.

If you're going to talk about style and how is perceived at least educate yourself. A good start is the book The Industrialization of Design by Caroll Gantz.

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sanctified, on 02 July 2012 - 22:18, said:

No. I got all that from seeing Boz and you post the same kind of things over and over again in these forums... and your signature.

So, whatever is in my sig I spend most of my time thinking about and involved with.

I didnt even bother reading the rest of your post since you assume a lot and imagine things that are not there. I gave my opinion...plane and simple.

[sanctified]

techbeck, on 02 July 2012 - 22:20, said:

So, whatever is in my sig I spend most of my time thinking about and involved with.

You're right. I bet that you put in your signature things that you hate.

techbeck, on 02 July 2012 - 22:20, said:

I didnt even bother reading the rest of your post since you assume a lot and imagine things that are not there. I gave my opinion...plane and simple.

Right, So you don't read anything that does not agree with you

Kids these days. They don't know what they talk about.