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A lot of hackernews seems really dedicated to the idea that Google and Apple should decide what software we get to make and sell. Why are people so gung ho to
by gameswithgo 5y ago
A lot of hackernews seems really dedicated to the idea that Google and Apple should decide what software we get to make and sell. Why are people so gung ho to be under the corporate boot like this?
- heavyset_go 5y agoSome are direct, or indirect, shareholders, or stand to own shares in the future.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoMaybe some of them are invested in the status quo.
- rchaud 5y agoA lot of people agreed with that Steve Jobs letter about Flash in 2010. Some of that feeling may still linger. In retrospect, that darn letter and the usual Jobs media fawning was probably the first domino that led to the web being completely marginalized on iOS in favour of Apple-approved apps.
- ehutch79 5y agoflash is not the open web. it was a proprietary plugin.
- rchaud 5y agoDidn't say it was the open web. The web in general wasn't all that open. You couldn't run Netflix on your PC without a Microsoft Silverlight plugin. Today, it's Widevine for Android. Both proprietary and closed source. Adobe made Flash plugins available for iOS, Android, WebOS and Blackberry. There was none of the anti-competitive moat building that Apple and Google engaged in to win the app war and squeeze out every other vendor. The death of Flash meant that there was no universal, un-walled app store that was OS-agnostic.