On Oct 7, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 03:15, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Access fee ? You mean you have to pay for the device and you can't steal it ? > > I thought we were having a serious discussion.
Obviously, you are not being serious... > The iPhone 4S: Apple grows its walled garden > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/04/iphone-apple-launch?newsfeed=true Ok, so here is the part about the Evil Apple: > Apple is taking this further with Siri, with a series of demonstrations > including the setting of an alarm clock, making an appointment, finding a > restaurant, checking stock prices and more. The integration with Apple's > other iPhone apps is key to this. > > That integration should be seen in the context of Apple's plans to keep its > customers entirely inside the Apple ecosystem. Why go outside, except for > things Apple doesn't (yet) provide? Apple wants customers to answer that > question in this way: "No reason at all." Indeed. Jezz, _that's_ evil. "We're trying to get you something that works so that you don't have to consider buying a device that we don't sell". It looks to me like Apple's doing its job as a company that sells devices. All the rest is so irrelevant, especially so the part about the media data where obviously the author has missed the fact that Apple fought with the entertainment media to be able to distribute DRM free music for a cheap price and a high quality. This guy obviously has a problem with reality. The rest of the paper is fantasy. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(technology) > > "Apple iOS and other devices restricted to running pre-approved > applications from a digital distribution service." Yes, and ? Windows is considering that for Metro too, btw. Have you noticed ? And they are considering the option _because_ it makes the user experience more stable. You know, things like battery life, HW crashes etc. Stuff that does not happen with your coffee machine. > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050788/compiler-author-laments-apple-attitude-runtime I'm so sad for this guy. Now it seems to me that Apple's policy regarding which kind of apps was fine has changed recently and that even Adobe can use their products to make iPhone apps. Jean-Christophe Helary _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
