Exactly, do we want Jobs (or Gates) or anyone to extend the grasping claws of control further or do we want to push them back & make them somewhat accountable. Is everyone comfortable with the itunes/app store concept, smacks of Big Brother to me. Ipod touch owners have to pay for OS upgrades, people' s thinking goes along the lines of .. it's only $x & are lulled by the low cost but there is a huge control factor there.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >> How does that changes in the way Apple controls iPhone and iPod app >> right now? > > It doesn't, AFAIK, except in the sense that it applies this concept to > what people perceive as a computer. People are sadly used to the idea > that a phone is something over which they have no control, which is why > the iPhone *appeared* to most users as more open than the rest (via its > application store). For a tablet, that's the exact opposite, since > until now tablets were typically Windows machines where you were free to > install anything else on it and where Microsoft made no attempt to > restrict the set of applications you could install. > > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
