Macs No More: After Edward Snowden, Time to Come to the Penguin

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Submission + - Macs No More: After Edward Snowden, Time to Come to the Penguin (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by jrepin on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:49PM

jrepin writes: With each new version of Mac OS X, the computer becomes more and more like an iPhone or an iPad — a device designed for controlled consumption, not real creating. (With Windows 8 and the Surface, Microsoft has a head start.) The idea is to turn the computer from a general-purpose anything-machine into a ad-distributing appliance. Your mind is meant to become one too. The personal computer is political. The time for liberation has kind of come.

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