Bob, You're more than welcome to your opinion as an Apple apologist-- though I would say your timing right now is probably not the best. I disagree with just about everything you say. You obviously haven't been following our discussion here over the past few weeks where all of your points have been addressed. I have documented my discussion fairly well at the blogs:
http://shaferwaltersgroup.posterous.com/ and http://chippwalters.posterous.com/ Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On May 10, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh I see. I think it was the word "outlaw" that tripped me up. I guess if you > see the iPad as an asset belonging to all of us, you would get the feeling > that Apple is "outlawing" cross platform development. But I don't think any > iPad but the one I buy belongs to me or anyone else. > > I don't see what Apple is doing as being monopolistic or engaging in > Anti-trust. What they are trying to discourage is using tools to develop apps > that can dramatically change the look and feel of their device, or affect > stability, or lend themselves to obsolescence, or worse yet, to hinder > advancements in the iPhone OS. Anyone remember how many times Microsoft said > they were done with DOS, or how long Windows had to deal with the > restrictions of the old hardware PC spec? Ball and chain comes to my mind. > > Like I said in another post, what would have happened if many of the apps > originally written for the iPhone were so buggy they were causing kernel > crashes all the time? Who would get the blame? Apple of course. Any attempt > to defend themselves would have been deemed finger pointing. I for one am > happy that we have building codes requiring building contractors to comply > with ordinances. It means that the 6 story I work in is not coming down to > the ground with just any old earthquake. I think of Apple's control over the > software that ends up running on the iPhone exactly like those building > codes. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
