Apple's Crazy Attempt to Make Everyone Act Like American Teens Will Fail

Macaolope[1]'s going to have a nice week! First Gizmodo's review (saying ML is absolute garbage), now this:<p><i>&#62; [..] Let’s review the first paragraph of Anderson’s post:</i><p><i>&#62;&#62;&#62; Apple today proudly announces that if you buy their Mountain Lion OS, it will connect you to many unprotected sites, beyond your control, without your even knowing that you are so connected.</i><p><i>&#62; This simply isn’t true. [..]</i><p>BTW, the Time article actually is a rebuttal of the sillt article by Mr. Anderson. The title is a little misleading (though I'm sure it wasn't intended and was merely a side effect of 80-character title limit).<p>[1]: <a href="http://macalope.com/" rel="nofollow">http://macalope.com/</a>

Calling anything mandatory about computers in this day and age is laughable at best. Social networking is baked into the operating system for a reason. It's there, you don't have to use it, but you can if you'd like. It's there because we are living in an increasing social-network oriented world. People want to be able to fire off updates to their followers while they are doing something else. It's no big deal really. It's not like your twitter or facebook streams are baked into the operating system. Turning off the integration is as simple as a trip to the system preferences pane. The user group that Apple is designing for isn't the American mobile teen. It's the social media consumer/user. Do you know what's awesome about features that are included in operating systems? They can be turned off while you're at work and then turned on when you're at home.