“European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer”.

I trust in the spirit of fair competition, Apple is also going to remove Safari from OS X, meaning Mac users will also need to download a browser before they can look at websites?

‘But’, I hear you say, ‘what about corporate social responsibility? We all know how evil and anti-competitive The Borg is, whereas those nice people at Apple all eat organic food, donate lots to charity, and don’t wear leather or wool’.

Erm, yes. What’s not very widely known is that Apple co-founder and head Steve Jobs is also a major shareholder and board member of Disney, themselves not exactly Snow White when it comes to being cuddly bunnies in the corporate environment.

And now there’s this story today, revealing that some workers in the Chinese plant which manufactures the iPod regularly work longer than 60-hour weeks. Apple were quoted as finding that excessive, and taking steps to enforce a ‘normal’ 60-hour week.

Excuse me? A 60-hour week normal??? I’m glad I don’t work for Apple!