On Feb 1, 3:33 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course once people have invested significantly (in this case apps, > music etc.) they will find it to pretty hard to leave.
Lock-in is different from dictatorship. You can't take native apps from a platform and move them to another one; Adobe Flash/AIR or JavaFX may change that in the coming years by providing cross-platform (again; there doesn't seem to be a huge demand for JME on smartphones). Most music you buy today is DRM-free and can be played anywhere; video is DRM-encumbered with every store and not freely transferable. Books are mostly DRM-encumbered, too (either Kindle or Adobe), and not freely transferable, either. My point: Yes, Apple locks you in, but to a certain degree, the other guys (apps) and content providers do, too. But since it's not a dictatorship, you can choose which platform locks you in the least / the nicest. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
