I'm /not /freaking out about things not being open source.
Apple (and video game console makers) present a whole new level of
closed, walled garden, however.
* You have to pay for the SDK.
* You have NDA restrictions in cases about what you can say about
the SDK/API.
* You have to develop your application first and then beg Apple to
see if they feel like letting you bring your product to their
market -- after you've already poured your time and money into it.
By comparison I look back fondly on the old days of developing for the
old Mac OS, where you could walk into any decent bookstore and pick up
books on the Mac OS APIs, buy an IDE from Apple or others, and write
apps to share or sell to your heart's content. This was far from "open
source", but the APIs were published and you could get in the game with
an affordable IDE without any further barriers. In today's world, one
would expect API documentation on the web and a free or bundled IDE
(though perhaps not a top-of-the-line one), reducing barriers to market
entry even further.
Apple's iPhone/iPod/iPad market is absolutely the spitting image of the
nightmare they posed in their 1984 commercial by comparison. Sure, the
UI is pretty rather than boorish as implied by the 1984 commercial, but
the reality is Apple wields absolute dictatorial control over the entire
development market for these devices -- to the benefit of no one but Apple.
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Jess Holle
On 2/15/2010 7:16 AM, CKoerner wrote:
Maybe the posse doesn't think that just because Apple is making a
closed product, the world of open source will end. TVs are starting to
connect directly to the Internet and fetch video. How long before its
email and other stuff. Are people going to 'freak out' because its not
open source, you can't hack your TV. Seriously, if you guys can't see
there is already a ground swell of open products that copy Apple and
are more open.
And guess what, developers are NOT trapped doing Apple apps, so
please, its a choice. Apple doesn't have a monopoly, there are plenty
of competing products, vendors are 'teaming up' to create competitive
options, so chill and just enjoy the product for what it is and be
happy that someone is pushing forward new paradigms of computer.
Otherwise we'd all still be stuck with Windows Mobile 3 as the
'smartphone'
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