On Apr 9, 1:44 am, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that Apple is very unpopular right now for having a closed > garden, and I think we all wish things were more open. But that's not > the same as the things we've seen from Microsoft in the past
You may be right but it seems that Apple is heading in that direction and their "closed garden" is full of thorns. The first one, which I think the Posse mentioned in the past (regarding the iPhone) is the banning of Java from the iPhone OS. I recall that in the early days of the iPhone you had some hopes (especially Dick) that Java support will arrive - but it didn't. Then you mentioned that it may arrive by cross compilation but now with the release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK Apple is banning any cross compilation so there will be no Java (or any other language besides Objective-C, C and C++). I expected that the JAVA Posse will show a bit more criticism for a company banning the use of the Java language on its platform. Second - the app store approval process - Dick mentioned the ban of Google Voice which was clearly done for non-technical reasons. As I mantioned before in this group, Paul Graham has a well written blog post on this - http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html Third - it seems that their HTC patent suite is part of FUD tactics against Android. Wil Shipley, in an open letter to Steve Jobs regarding the HTC litigation wrote: "You’ve famously taken and built on ideas from your competitors, as have I, as we should, as great artists do. Why is what HTC has done worse? Whether an idea was patented doesn’t change the morality of copying it, it only changes the ability to sue. […] 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." -- 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.
