On Dec 4, 9:15 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Because Apple are setting the pace at the moment. They could have > done the right thing and taken the line that devices are there for the > benefit of users and not the other way around, or they could have > taken the line that open standards are the way to go.
Apple has two platforms on iOS: It's proprietary, curated app store and the web, based on the "open HTML 5 standard" (yeah, it's not done, but it's already useful). And they push both forward - just look at what they just added to Safari in 4.2 (http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/ safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-html5). Apps can take full advantage of everything in the device, web apps only get a subset but run cross-platform and without Apple's intervention. How does that make iOS only be of benefit to Apple and not to its users? -- 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.
