On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > and where is Apple's God-given right to prevent someone who _owns_ an ithing > from buying an application from anyone other than Apple?
Apple created the ecosystem, and they continue to pay billions of dollars per year to support that ecosystem. If you want to take your fully paid up iThing (after the subsidy period has expired, or if you paid the full non-subsidized price) and jailbreak it and remove yourself from that ecosystem, I don't see that they have much of a leg to stand on. However, so long as you want to continue to make use of that ecosystem, I don't see how Apple should be prevented from placing restrictions on the distribution channels that are allowed to put content into that ecosystem. You pays your money, and youse takes your chances. And if you don't like the way this house plays the game, you go somewhere else. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ 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/
