Disgruntled Enough with Apple to Move Back to the PC?

As our site focuses more on PC’s using Windows or Linux, we haven’t put much emphasis on Apple in the past. That will no doubt change at some point in the future though, but for now, we’re content with simply talking about what’s going on down there in Cupertino, whether it be a new product launch, or something else on the business side of things (good or bad).

I’ve made it no secret in the past that I’m not a big fan of Apple, and that really hasn’t changed. I won’t go through my personal reasons again here, but I will say that things have even rubbed me even worse lately, especially with regards to the entire App Store debacle of good applications being denied for no apparent reason. I’m not alone, and it seems like some actual pro-Apple fans are starting to become annoyed as well.

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of the human-powered search-engine, Mahalo, moved over to the Apple side six years ago, after being a devoted Microsoft fan for over 20 years. Since then, he’s given over $20,000 to Apple, across his various computers and accessories. His loving relationship with Apple has apparently ended, due to how the company is handling things lately, and he’s even looking back to Microsoft

This is a long blog post, but it’s worth it if you want to see it from a rather unique perspective. Jason lists five specific reasons that pushed him over the edge, which include destroying MP3 player innovation through anti-competitive practices, monopolistic practices in telecommunications, and of course, the App Store policies.

Years and years after Microsoft’s antitrust headlines, Apple is now the anti-competitive monster that Jobs rallied us against in the infamous 1984 commercial. Steve Jobs is the oppressive man on the jumbotron and the Olympian carrying the hammer is the open-source movement. Steve Jobs is on the cusp of devolving from the visionary radical we all love to a sad, old hypocrite and control freak–a sellout of epic proportions.