-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/17/11 15:20 , Benjamin Krueger wrote: > Frankly, the consolation that Apple is "protecting" users rings extremely > hollow.
It's also 100% correct. Go back and reread the article at the start of this. How is Apple protecting the user? Apple is protecting the user's *identity*; users have to explicitly opt in to release their information to a vendor. > Allowing other distribution channels? Really? Again, the answer is "yes". Read the original URL, please. > So I'll be able to install the Kindle app from the Amazon iPad store now? You can *now*. You will continue to be able to if Amazon adds Apple's in-app system as well as their own. > Price equity? I just finished pointing out that Apple's own competing > products will *not* be paying the 30% fee. I'm having trouble making sense of this complaint. Apple is supposed to pay 30% to itself? And the 30% is for an ongoing service.. which Apple already provides, so it's not at all clear to me that, even if somehow they *should* be paying themselves in some sense, it makes any sense for them to charge themselves for themselves. I can see an argument about price equity of applications, but anyone who sues over that is going to get bitten rather badly when the legal system starts involving itself with setting application prices. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] kf8nh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1eAdQACgkQIn7hlCsL25WDlQCgl5X8oLhfamGG7mOdm4UUcboo UzIAnRzbVfmcihfzE+9JtDo8typc3Rwp =0m09 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
