To most people, this has never had anything to do with OS choice or with Apple's stock price. It has to do with corporate conduct. It has to do with the following:-
1) Do you want a society in which your access to applications and thus increasingly to media is in the control of a few corporations who make the platforms? Or do you want a world in which you buy the platform, install what you want from where you want, buy, read and watch and listen to what you want from wherever you want? Its the CD model versus the iTunes model. 2) Do you as developer want to have one route to market, an App store run by the device manufacturer, and have him able to eject your stuff instantly on a whim? And then let it back in again on a whim, who knows for how long? The reason the debate now comes up with OSX has nothing to do with that OS in particular, it is that people think, reasonably enough based on the track record, that Apple is starting to move OSX to the iPod and iPad model. They don't trust it. And they think it has serious societal implications. Once again, reasonably enough, given the track record. These are the guys who ban apps based on what you can, but do not have to, use them to download, when the material you allegedly might download is perfectly legal in your jurisdiction, but for some reason, the guys at Apple do not approve of it. They banned Matlab, for Heaven's sake! A version of Ulysses! Corporate control of what you can do with your computer or your ebook reader or your tablet is a threat, probably in the West now emerging as the main threat, to intellectual freedom. This is not OS wars. This is corporate conduct wars. The same or very similar points can be made about Amazon and its ebook format and sales methods. It is perfectly possible that being on the wrong side of that debate may be very profitable for Apple and lead to rising share prices. I doubt it, I think the probable effect of these efforts at control will be to promote hacking and piracy. But even were it a good route to rising profits and stock prices, doesn't make it any righter. And the problem is, Apple always has been evil in this way, but it used not to matter because it was too small for its example to matter. Now it is getting bigger, its a real force in society. So you can no longer say, you don't like it don't buy it. You buy it or not, its influence is profound. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Mac-App-Store-tp3004425p3008464.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
