And suddenly, I like Apple again*
Typically, the “Terms and Conditions”** of a web service are an excuse to leverage some legalese in order to trick you into agreeing to a bunch of bullshit.***
And while the iTunes Store Terms may not be ideal, at least they have the decency to call out and make plain changes to their legalese:
* I say “again” because I got my start with OS 8, then rocked OS 9. I even rocked ResEdit. I installed the piece-of-crap release that was OS 10.1. Making it short and simple: I was a huge Apple fan. But ever since they got cool, they’ve started pushing garbage to market — just like the folks in Redmond.
** For the record: Aside from the Creative Commons license, there are no Terms of Use on jereme.tumblr.com, unless Tumblr, Inc. decides to enforce some. But they didn’t make me include any such notice of any such Terms on this page, so, um, lots of luck with that. (They do have Terms of Service, but as far as I can tell those Terms apply to me, not you.)
As for me: I do have Terms of Use on my own website, which is linked from here (and which you might be on right now, since I aggregate these posts onto my site — how fucking meta is that? Pay attention to URLs, yo). Anyway, I call it a “Legal Notice”. All it says is that you can’t sue me for visiting my website, that I use web analytics to see what people like to look at, and that my content is licensed under the Creative-motherfucking-Commons Attribution-motherfucker-and-bitch-you-better-be-Noncommercial-and-be-sure-to-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
(The code and design on that shit is G-to-the-P-to-the-motherfucking-L. Just in case that’s something you’re into.)
*** Yep, said it. Suck it, spammers.
Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:42 pm
