Am 14.03.2011 um 04:56 schrieb "William H. Magill" <[email protected]>:
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Erwan David wrote: >> I think it is more a problem of control. Apple wants a total control on what >> runs on the computers it sells. The App store model is the key to this >> control, if people are obliged to use it. The itunes account licence is not >> innocuous and gives Apple many rights. The confidentiality policy does not >> garantee anything for the seller, only the right for Apple to dissemintates >> the informtation that Apple defines as non personnal. >> >> Enforcing the Appstore model makes people prisonner of a company which >> should stay a mere furnisher. >> >> I personnaly never will sign up a itunes account with the current licence, >> same I always refuse the itunes licence. WOuld Apple continue it's today >> trend, my next configuration would be another OS on the Apple branded >> hardware I own. >> >> Would macports mandate the use of an appstore XCode, would just accelerated >> the move. > > > One wonders if Apple was simply "thinking ahead." > > Last week Google announced that it had "automagically" deleted > malware-infected Android apps from people's Android phones without the owners > knowledge or participation. > > It is similar to the "control" (or should we say royalty) issue surrounding > apps that you buy direct from third parties, but who offer updates via the > App store... you can't get them without having bought the app through the App > store even though you have a licensed copy of the App. > > That is clearly a case of Apple not trusting your Mac to report valid > licenses to it. They want the license in their data base. > > One other issue with Xcode 4 -- Xcode use to install in > /Developer/Applications by default, along with all of the rest of the > developer tools... now it apparently installs in /Applications. > > Did Apple "screw up" and loose the /Developer prefix, or have they now done > away with the idea? Xcode still installs to /developer/applications. The App Store DOWNLOADS the installer to /applications Dom _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
