In spite of Apple’s many transgressions, I finally caved, and bought a Touch.  What transgressions?

• They’re suing a small Victoria, BC business school over the apple logo.
• The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have cut and paste.
• The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have an SD card slot for extra memory.
• The iPhone/Touch SDK comes with a punishingly harsh NDA.

Ok, they’ve actually retired that NDA, but there are other offences.  The highly vaunted Apple user experience has been a bust for me.  I tried and tried, but couldn’t get into the App Store, which is the ONLY WAY to download programs onto the platform. Continue reading →