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I also think Apple is treating the iOS ecosystem like a video game console rather than a computer. Exactly. If people looked at the console wars between MS, S

I also think Apple is treating the iOS ecosystem like a video game console rather than a computer. Exactly. If people looked at the console wars between MS, Sony, and Nintendo and compared their developer agreements to Apple's, they probably wouldn't get so bent out of shape over things. Consoles aren't attempting to replace general purpose PCs, while all indications are that mobile computing devices are going to replace desktops and laptops for most of the population. If almost all of those devices are closed, the cost in freedom and innovation will be enormous.

access_denied 16y ago
Freedom and innovation is mostly not an issue of programing your home computer. It is about using DTP tools to publish your homebrown political magazine. Making art in all sorts of ways: music, sheet music, paintings, animations, movies, fotos and on and on. Writing your novel. The play for the theater. The website. The collection of your favourite recipes at your fingertipp (aka app). It's about the apps. For most people anyway. And the greates hindrance to freedom? You mean for most people? Bad usability that makes apps unusable like in not usable. Like DOS. You can't see the apps, you can't use them. So my argument here is basically that Apple is more an enabler than a stiffler of innovation.