Using the optical drive as an example doesn't help your case IMO. People bitched when apple ditched the floppy drive. I look at PCs and still see the crappy old VGA connector. Sometimes you have to ditch what is obviously on it's way out. Give the old tech a nudge out the door.
As for iOS, I think it's simple. Apple wants its devices to be appliances. People shouldn't have to worry about their devices degrading into a POS. This is to avoid the horror that is the standard PC. I am appalled every time I turn on my in-laws PC. There must be 5 pop ups from pre-installed crapware. The PC is overloaded with pure junk. Their printers never work. The system is always bogged down. Apple wants to sell well functioning devices that people aren't scared of and can rely on. They want seamless integration (well with OS X and iTunes anyway). There is a downside though. Apple rejects some apps. You can't do true background apps (Apple can of course). You have to trust Apple and their fickle rules. You have to wait longer for features than Android as Apple is very careful about what they do. Google sees android more like a PC than an appliance. There are definite advantages to this. You can make your phone do pretty much whatever you want and put whatever you want on it. You have more power than iOS. They are very aggressive about adding features. You get more hardware options. But, since google is so hands off - the carriers can do whatever they like. And they do. They add their own crapware. Android devices are much more likely to get bogged down and have their battery sucked by misbehaving apps (hence all the task killers in Play). Malware is more common. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I'd long since reached the same conclusion as Dick, i.e. that I > really shouldn't buy any more Apple products. > > That said, I won't stand in the way of anyone else (including my wife) > buying them. > > My reasons include their litigious patent suit stuff, but that's just > piece. I'm also voting with my feet against their heavily walled garden > approach to applications for the iPhone and iPad -- and whatever else they > can force in that direction apparently (e.g. shipping the Mac Mini without > a CD/DVD drive and trying to nudge it in the same direction...). > > I see Apple as the new Microsoft -- but worse in that with Microsoft you > were always free to produce and market your app in their effective monopoly > space (Windows) whereas Apple doesn't want you to have that much freedom. > > -- > Jess Holle > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
