control-freakery

This arrogant control-freakery is what I feared when Google announced Android in 2007: Carriers have exploited Android's openness to treat their customers like their servants.

Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

This arrogant control-freakery is what I feared when Google announced Android in 2007: Carriers have exploited Android's openness to treat their customers like their servants.

Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok Rob Pegoraro 2010

But I have always known that there was a darker side to himhis obsessiveness, his self-centerdness, his control-freakery, his capacity for self-deception, his conviction that he was always right, his almost casual cruelty when his own interests were at stake.

A Conversation with Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue Dress 2010

If you voted Labour in 2001 or 2005 then you are partly to blame for what is happening; what you learnt from 1997 to 2001 should have told you all you needed to know about this Labour government's integrity and their control-freakery.

Photographers fight back (update and reminder) Not a sheep 2009

In any case, the deal may signal a recognition by the Kremlin that, for all its control-freakery, it has to make concessions to Western involvement.

Russia's Need Is Exxon's Opportunity Liam Denning 2011

This is an extraordinarily arrogant sort of control-freakery: First Apple has asserted the right to veto developers 'iPhone software for any reason, and now it won't let them cover their bets by starting with a cross-platform code base.

Apple's iPad: Tool, toy or trap? 2010

Behind the nice normality there's plenty of repressed control-freakery.

Cameron's smooth approach to transition 2010

Despite my new-found enthusiasm for the iPad as the ultimate media player, though, I continue to have reservations about some of the claims people make for it, as well as Apple's shameful control-freakery.

Why, after all, I can't resist the iPad 2010

You can argue that it's wrong for Apple to lock out Flash and even prohibit developers from rewriting Flash applications to run on the iPhone (though that's far from the worst of Apple's iPhone control-freakery).

Adobe has a hard sell for its Flash software 2010

This has become as predictable as Apple's occasional excesses of App Store control-freakery and subsequent reversals.

Why did you rush to pre-order an iPhone 4? 2010