This may or may not be an accurate assertion, but please support it some with something other than self-assuredness. On the flip side, there are some signs that do point in the direction of Apple being interested in locking down each of their platforms as much as possible. While the company has changed over the years, they appear to have always been of a mind that end users are to be kept at arm's length for fear of tinkering. I understand that their processor architecture was appealing to many hobbyists, but compare that world view to the PC clone market that emerged at the same time. Clearly, it shows two very different philosophies emerging in two very different ecosystems: one is open (perhaps more through circumstances than philosophical conviction) and the other is closed.
Fast-forward to today. Apple is an active player in several segments: major ones being personal computing, mobile devices, and media, such as TV set-top boxes. Looking at their recent statements and decisions made in those spaces, they move to lock down their products as much as they can get away with and defend it with fear-mongering over fragmentation and poor user experience. But essentially Apple wants to always present prospective customers with the same choice of trusting the company with the lock and key to the wondrous walled garden or be "out-there" on their own, where who knows what kinds of bad things could happen to them. I am torn on this. I am not a zealot and I can see that Google has done some of this in a much milder form of luring people into opening up ever more personal information to them as a trade-off for convenience and ever-lasting supported integration of services. It can work. And it can be a worth-while proposition to the consumers. We can't reject this position merely on the grounds of "it's evil, therefore it'll never work." People don't always act in their own self-interest. We have to accept that. But it isn't as though this philosophy is prevalent in Apple's mobile products and totally alien in their PC's. It's just harder to implement. Alexey ________________________________ From: CKoerner <chessm...@gmail.com> To: The Java Posse <javaposse@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 2:10:47 PM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Email from Jobs re Java on OS-X Anyone who thinks the Mac is going to be nothing but a big iPhone is so unbelievably misguided that it would be a waste of time. Heres your signs. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
