On Feb 11, 11:59 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Your example is correct, but doesn't necessarily drive to your > conclusion. Summing up, you've said that Apple's restrictive rules make > it impossible for third parties to jeopardize the user experience. I > believe that it's up to the consumers to decide which apps jeopardize > the user experience. If an application is bad, it won't have success. > It's the free market.
Yes, I agree that consumers should decide - and they can, because they can buy an Apple device or a Nokia one or an Android one. In fact, if Apple didn't have this "walled garden approach" out there _in addition to what everybody else has_, then there would be less choice for consumers. So both models (and everything inbetween) should be out there for people to chose from. That's also the reason why I don't want Apple to have a monopoly, just like nobody else should have one (I'm European here where the monopoly per se is illegal; in the U.S., only its abuse is). > Entirely possible and since Apple has ties to the mobile carriers it > makes sense. That's another reason for which I'd like that gear > manufacturer don't have (strict) ties to mobile carriers and allow the > maximum freedom to developers. It's a way for innovation to possibly > happen and break consolidated interests of major telcos that are against > customers' interests. As long as carries sell subsidized phones, then the carriers are the real customers of mobile phone vendors (just as the big OEMs are the real Microsoft Windows customers), and only few companies like Apple can stand up to them (e.g., requiring iTunes for activation, only selling content through the iTunes store etc.). BTW: Google is with you there - according to Schmidt, the entire mission of the Nexus One is to change the way that people buy a mobile phone (http:// www.businessinsider.com/nexus-one-sales-bombing-only-80000-sold-after-a-month-2010-2), but unfortunately, they failed so far. -- 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.
