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Sharecropping in the Orchard: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
- tptacek 17y agoI think you're giving short shrift to the first Gruber Konfab post, which did not simply say "tough luck, Arlo", but also contained a credible argument that Dashboard didn't rib Konfabulator off in the first place. I would not be surprised to find that you agree with me that it's Apple's prerogative to make whatever decisions it wants to optimize for end-user experience --- the point I think you're articulating with "especially if the orchard is better off under the care of the landlord" or however you put it. Dashboard is better than Konfabulator. iTunes is better than Audion. I don't know whether the iPhone will be better off in an ObjC-only ecosystem, but it might be. Classic Mode, Java, and Java Cocoa were debacles on OS X.
- raganwald 17y agoI certainly agree it's Apple's prerogative to optimize for the user experience, for the stockholder's value, or both :-) I find the thought of Flash on the iPhone revolting, and it isn't just a case of not using Flash applications: I don't want the platform watered down and the financial race to the bottom becoming a UI race to the bottom as well. That being said, I am writing my own iPhone Go UI as a web application rather than a native application :-)
- mark_l_watson 17y agoNice, especially in view of Apple's new TOS for the iPhone SDK. Want to avoid being am iPhone sharecopper? Stick with web apps and HTML(5)+Javascript clients that run on multiple small devices.