On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Apple has eliminated the possibility of "legal" competition and force you > through their channels.
Feel free to abandon the platform for one of the plethora of other smartphone OSes out there. Apple has created a model where it's controlled for quality-assurance reasons. Perhaps you prefer the "wild west" of some other smartphone platforms where there's little to no quality-control on how things get installed on them. If it's TRULY a software vendor unfriendly move, the offended software vendors will eventually stop developing for iOS, and Apple will account for that by changing its policies, or its users will by buying into a platform where they can get the apps they want. Apple doesn't have anything close to a "monopoly" in the smartphone sector, so there's no reason they can't do whatever they want, and let the market bear what it will. I strongly suspect they'll do alright with it. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
