On Feb 7, 1:01 am, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > As Joshua said in another post, we can bitch all day long, but so far > Apple is winning - they sell a ton of phones, they're very profitable, > they have the most mobile developer mindshare, and they have the most > apps. Now I think their process is too secretive and too rigorous, > but the only way to change that is through more competition for > developers.
You call it bitching, I call it education. As an individual, I cannot influence how the market behaves but I can explain what I think is wrong with the current direction Apple is taking. The other thing I can do as a developer is to try and chose to work on more open platforms. This is what I've done in the "glory" days of the Microsoft monoculture - I spoke and wrote about how MS is hurting innovation and chose to develop in Java. As a consumer I chose to buy an Android phone instead of the iPhone and I hope that there will be a more open tablet soon to choose instead of the iPad. What really surprised me is that I didn't hear even the slightest criticism form any of the Java Posse guys about this - even not from Dick who usually is more concerned with freedom. It seems that they are taking for granted the lack of Java on the iPhone and iPad - I wonder why... -- 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.
