1 My wife insisted on installing some NBA app on my iPhone last night during dinner (she had forgotten to bring hers). When I clicked on "install", the iPhone informed me that the terms and conditions for the app store had changed and insisted that I read and agree to the new terms before proceeding.

At the bottom of the screen I saw the fateful words "page 1/96".

Needless to say, I didn't read them before clicking "agree".

2 And now they own you.

3 "Show me the man, and I will show you his crime."

4 I seem to recall reading somewhere that, because users don't really have a choice about EULAs and (more importantly) don't have the legal training to understand what's in them even if they do slog through all that boilerplate, that EULAs are arguably unenforceable. At any rate, unless there's an article I'm missing, this comic appears to be taking a lazy, unprovoked potshot at a popular target; I'm a bit mystified that they didn't go after somebody who REALLY has a history of abusing EULAs, like Microsoft or Zynga...

5 ...this comic appears to be taking a lazy, unprovoked potshot at a popular target...

What's that sickly stench I smell?  Could it be the smug, self-satisfied odor of an Apple Fanboy?

6 What's that sickly stench I smell?  Could it be the smug, self-satisfied odor of an Apple Fanboy?

Nice to make your acquaintance, too. And not that you'd have any way of knowing, but no. At any rate, judging by what makes the tech news, Apple is more interested in lawyer-bludgeoning third-party developers rather than customers, whom they are content to price-gouge the way any provider of a seemingly inelastic good would be tempted to do.

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Alex, it's topical because it's a reference to the SWAT raid on that Gizmodo writer. (And yes, I'm aware that the EULA doesn't apply to that case. So is the cartoonist.) Also, I like "lazy, unprovoked potshots at a popular target" when the target is Apple. (You may not realize how long and deep has run my utter hatred of all things Applish.)

Meanwhile, I'd like to remind everyone that we're all friends here. I won't tolerate my readers taking potshots at each other in my comments. You wanna fight, take it outside.

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