On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>
>> Think about it this way -- when Barnes & Noble sets up a book store, do they
>> allow competing book store chains to come in and set up their own shop
>> inside and then force those customers to check out only at the non-B&N
>> registers?
>
> iPads and iPhones are not Apple's property. They do not belong to Apple. They
> are not storefronts. They are privately owned consumer devices that Apple
> maintains an undeserved deathgrip on thanks to the epic legislative
> catastrophe known as DMCA, which consumers only put up with because Apple
> makes some great software. Apple has taken great measures to ensure that
> there is no distribution competition on these devices, and we now know why.
> It was a malicious ploy to ensure that Apple can hold the users of those
> devices ransom to other potential competitors.
I don't see the problem here.
People are absolutely free to buy devices that aren't from Apple. There's
supposed to be more Android phones out there than iDevices, the Androids having
an entire bazaar of stores, app and otherwise. There's blackberry's with
their own store and distribution method. There's whatever the Windows phone OS
du jour is with their app store. Doesn't Nokia have their own thing, too?
Though didn't the app store concept, or at least the first fully functional
implementation everyone else is desperately trying to copy, start with Apple?
Hmmmm.....
People are absolutely free to buy a smartphone, tablet, whatever, from someone
else. In fact, more have bought the non-Apples than have bought them from
Apple. And they're absolutely free to use whatever half functional attempt at
cloning Apple's app store/distribution/sales mechanism their other device maker
allows them to access. Including a bazaar rather than a cathedral.
What's that you say, Apple has a "deathgrip" on their customers by totally
controlling the software distribution to their devices? AND consumers only put
up with because Apple makes some great software? AND both software developers
and content providers are desperately developing for the Apple devices that
happen to make make them more money and get them more cultural recognition?
Think there just might be some kinda correlation there?
Arthur
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