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Apple wants you to use their hardware. What you use it for doesn't matter so much as you using it This is unfortunately less true than it used to be. It matter

Apple wants you to use their hardware. What you use it for doesn't matter so much as you using it This is unfortunately less true than it used to be. It matters to Apple if you want to run unapproved software on an iPad, or heaven forbid install Linux on it. I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years. Google, on the other hand, wants you to use the web Google wants you to use Google services and see ads that make Google money. They don't especially care whether that means web apps with AdSense ads or native apps with AdMob.

jbrennan 15y ago
It matters to Apple if you want to run unapproved software on an iPad, or heaven forbid install Linux on it. Doesn't it make more sense that Apple is trying to build a large and consumer friendly platform (approved apps) and that it would be an unjustifiable expense to support installing alternative OSes (Linux)? Why is there always the assumption of nefarious motivations when it's more simply explained? They are only trying to make money, after all.
glassx 15y ago
"I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years." Considering the influx of open-source hackers and ex-windows users that migrated to Mac after the switch to Intel, this is just... nuts. Or maybe just FUD.
stephen_g 15y ago
> I expect these restrictions will be coming to Macs over the next few years. I doubt it - iOS has only got less restrictive over time (From no 3rd party apps, to 3rd party apps in Objective-C, C++ and C, to 3rd party apps in any language)... Why would they would go in the opposite direction on the Mac and alienate all their current Mac users?