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Absolutely not. He was the trailblazer for walled gardens and locked down systems. He only fought back when it cost him profit. The iPhone pretty much paved the
by rqtwteye 4y ago
Absolutely not. He was the trailblazer for walled gardens and locked down systems. He only fought back when it cost him profit. The iPhone pretty much paved the path for systems where the user isn’t allowed to do as they wish and software producers have to go through the one and only distribution path.
- NovaDudely 4y agoClearly the joke didn't come off. As I said he was the architect of digital jails, it is just that nowadays the folks we have are so much worse. But yes, under his watch he made the most locked down operating systems and distribution system we had ever known.
- scarface74 4y agoSo you never heard of game consoles where as far back as the original NES, Nintendo only allowed third parties a limited number of games each year and required them to use their manufacturing facilities for cartridges?
- scarface74 4y agoYes, because before ios there were no locked down systems like game consoles since the early 80s…