As I wrote before in this forum it seems that Apple is going in the wrong direction and I think the Posse's discussion on this item was quite shallow. First of all, from the narrow point of view of a Java developer - Java is banned from the the iphone/ipad platform. It seems that this was done from pure business decision of not allowing any way to circumvent the app store - this looks like the real reason of not allowing Flash on the iPad.
>From a broader point of view the whole app store approval process is broken - Paul Graham wrote a wonderful blog post about it (a couple months before the iPad was launched) - http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html. I wounder why Dick, who spoke about the problems with DRM and DVD protection is not saying a thing about the direction Apple is taking in this sense - here is what the FSF had to say about the iPad & DRM - http://www.fsf.org/news/ibad_launch Another indicator that something is wrong is the what long time Apple developers and fans are saying. Here is what Wil Shipley wrote about this affair (http://wilshipley.com/blog/2010/03/open-letter-to-steve- jobs-concerning.html): "...If Apple becomes a company that uses its might to quash competition instead of using its brains, it's going to find the brainiest people will slowly stop working there. You know this, you watched it happen at Microsoft. Enforcing patents isn't a good long- term play: it's the beginning of the end of the creative Apple we both love." On Mar 5, 7:00 pm, OldFatGit <[email protected]> wrote: > This blog explains it better than I can... > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1925&tag=content;col1 -- 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.
