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Either the author is pretty obtuse, or he's deliberately misrepresenting Bray's comparisons between the web and the iPhone app ecosystem. I thought it was pre

Either the author is pretty obtuse, or he's deliberately misrepresenting Bray's comparisons between the web and the iPhone app ecosystem. I thought it was pretty clear in Bray's original post that he wasn't try to say that Apple was censoring the internet, but was using the internet as an example of the virtues of uncensored, unrestricted innovation as compared to the highly restricted environment in the App store. And of course, as others have already pointed out, saying the mobile Safari's HTML5 support is an acceptable alternative for apps that aren't allowed into the App store is as completely stupid now as it was when Apple released the original iPhone without a local app SDK: http://gizmodo.com/267899/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-killer-iphone-apps http://gizmodo.com/267899/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-killer-ipho...

rue 17y ago
> Either the author is pretty obtuse, or he's deliberately misrepresenting Bray's comparisons between the web and the iPhone app ecosystem. I thought it was pretty clear in Bray's original post that he wasn't try to say that Apple was censoring the internet, [...] Bray was trying to say that, I assume, but not exactly clearly. These quotes easily cause confusion about what he is describing: "The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what." "Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other." http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Go...