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Well, sort of. You can still only play music and movies through iTunes, and you can only do it in formats supported by iTunes. You are not allowed to create a t
by boucher 16y ago
Well, sort of. You can still only play music and movies through iTunes, and you can only do it in formats supported by iTunes. You are not allowed to create a third party music or video player, which effectively means that even these things are a lot more closed than they are on the desktop (or android, palm, etc.).
- lukifer 16y agoQuite true; ultimately, open vs. closed is a complex spectrum, not a binary true/false. Apple has earned a reputation of being completely closed, to the point that I still hear people express surprise at, say, Macs opening Word docs from a PC.
- tommorris 16y agoPeople think Apple is completely closed because they can't open a proprietary binary format produced by a closed-source Microsoft Windows application on it? By the same reasoning, my Ubuntu Linux installation is closed because it doesn't - as far as I'm aware - have a way of opening Apple's proprietary Keynote format. ;-)
- hexley 16y agoProprietary? It's a renamed .tar.gz file containing any resources used inside the presentation and an XML file describing it's layout. And yes, I noticed the ;).