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I think they are connected. Part of the reason people are so comfortable with the iPhone is they really can't screw it up. They can't download any apps that a
by NyxWulf 17y ago
I think they are connected. Part of the reason people are so comfortable with the iPhone is they really can't screw it up. They can't download any apps that are spyware, or viruses or are going to steal their credit cards. They don't have to worry about what attachments they can and can't open. The very locked down nature of the device means it's a controlled environment that you can turn people loose in and say go nutz. That most certainly is not something you can do with an open computer.
So I don't think you can separate the environment from the equation, it's part of the entire end user experience.
Personally I think it's putting the onus back in the right place, which is on developers to make things work and make them work dead simple.
- Herring 17y agoYou're generalizing from 1 (incompetent) example, & that's despite lots of counterexamples. Someone earlier mentioned Blackberry development. In theory yeah if you run your own code you can run bad code, but it should be up to Apple to ensure that newbies never have to leave the app store. I can't remember the last time I went hunting for code instead of using apt-get. Sandboxing isn't hard either. With luck Apple will look aside as everyone jailbreaks it. After all they sell hardware, not software.