I was being facetious (thought that was obvious). The level of anger voiced in
this thread certainly exposes selfish profit centered motives. That fact alone
needed to be exposed before things got too obnoxious. My bet is that mr jobs
would love to keep the development and source as open as possible. My bet is
that security risks made this openness impossible. The reputation apple
products share is too valuable a commodity to mess with (even if that ends up
making a few thousand xtalk old farts loose their cool). When the tantrum
reached such a pitch that people started to deride basic economic truths I had
to step in and play the court jester. It is especially monstrous that a person
would brag about how easy it is to keep malware out of windows machines. It is
like a coal miner standing outside a cancer ward yelling "cancer happens to the
weak". What I really don't understand is how the rev community self justifies
the hypocrisy of the argument that apple is doing this out of selfishness when
the truth is that rev and all xtalk development platforms support for graphics
and motion video is so 1980s as to erase most of the advantage of the iphone
ipad platform. So where does the fault really lay? If the ipad market really
benefited from staying open to a community that could in no way produce ipad
worthy user experiences, than jobs would never have closed it down. Quality
control is a big marketing factor. Branding is effected by the consumer
experience at the apple store. I must say here that the app store was designed
for a few hundred apps and absolutely sucks at exposing tens of thousands of
apps to the matched consumer. It works for selling knicknacks but a lot of
apps have matured into full work tools (and apple is still selling them in
their bloomingdales boutique). Jack hammers make for awkward shelf mates next
to gold strappy pumps.
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