Be aware who owns a computer language.
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Folks talk about the devices, but the reality is that Apple is a software
company. And it is a viable software company because it has its own computer
language.
[..]
It's called Objective C, and it only runs on Mac OSX and Apple products.
[...]
And all these iPhones sold, and now iPads, and before them the iPods... all
these devices are all about apple software. Always have been. The hardware has
ALWAYS been old when Apple come to town to write the software people want to
use.
And the great myth about Apple is that they share and are friendlier than
microsoft, when it comes to proprietary software. WHOOT! What a farce that
concept is turning out to become.
If the app store keep going the way it is going, Steve Jobs is going to go down
in computer programming history as the greediest, meanest, most despicable
overlord of them all.
Apple staff are becoming HATED and loathed by Apple developers. Massively.
Really, really despised.
Why?
Because Apple own the language, and they will steal everything and anything
anyone else does, and call it their own. And there is nothing anyone can do
about it.
Apple are the computing Borg race. They assimilate software from everything
they touch, and from that point it will always be part of the invidious whole
entity.
src: Posted By cynik, Switzerland: April 5, 2010 6:48 PM
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This statement is from a comment to the article "The iPad and the failings of
the computer industry" on cnn.
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