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This is a terrible blog post, because it makes specific claims about why developers are complaining about Apple's actions and whether they are justified in doin
by dgreensp 16y ago
This is a terrible blog post, because it makes specific claims about why developers are complaining about Apple's actions and whether they are justified in doing so, which are torn to shreds quite lucidly in the comments, at which point the author dismisses the criticisms by saying they miss the point, he was really just ranting about computational literacy.
So, according to the author, he's really saying "Apple's actions, right or wrong, relevant or irrelevant, do perhaps call to mind the matter of computational literacy, and that sometimes people don't appreciate that different languages are adapted for different purposes." If you read any other meaning into the article, which I do even from the title, you are apparently attacking a straw man.
I don't why it annoys me so much when someone abdicates their intellectual responsibility, but it does.
- _delirium 16y agoI read into it mainly that one reason some developers are complaining about Apple's actions is that they don't get the idea of working on different platforms, etc., but have an "I do Flash and doing Flash is my right!" sort of view. Which seems right to me, even though there are clearly other reasons to dislike Apple's actions as well (like the antitrust concerns, and reduction in language experimentation).