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This is really going over the line. People are content in the walled garden, but if it starts getting too stuffy in there people will want to leave. Unfortunate
by tnash 14y ago
This is really going over the line. People are content in the walled garden, but if it starts getting too stuffy in there people will want to leave. Unfortunately it makes "business sense" (read: nonsense) for Apple to raise the walls of their walled garden as high as they can make them. Hopefully at some point there will be enough discontent to remove things like this.
- taligent 14y agoYou mean the same line that has been in place for nearly 2 years ? Pretty sure most people don't care.
- tnash 14y agoSure. Not right now, they don't. My point is that if Apple keeps pushing the walls higher on its garden at some point people will start complaining. iOS could very well become the Windows of mobile. I can imagine a future where a lot of people will complain "I don't want to use iOS, but it has all the apps!". I personally have owned an iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and iPad and I will probably buy the upcoming iPhone. Apple's walled garden restrictions get on my nerves, but they've been a subtle annoyance. I can live with them, but at some point they'll stop being a nuisance and become a problem.
- taligent 14y agoYou seem to be confused. This Dropbox is the same rule that has been in places for years. In fact the walled garden is less evident than in the past.
- CraigRood 14y agoNo I don't think hes confused, I feel the same way. What made the Kindle issue "OK" is that Kindle was undermining the Apple marketplace. This is simply not the case here. Apple are just being 'assholes'. A link to a link, to a link that sells disk space - not even CONTENT. How does it undermine Apples business model, or hurt end users? Answer is, It doesn't.
- stickfigure 14y agoI would argue that the success of the entire Android ecosystem is because users are unhappy living inside of Apple's clenched fist. It's not like people buy Android because the UX is better. You can't even claim it's because of AT&T anymore.
- jarcoal 14y agoI would argue it's because they've become the default freebie phone.
- stickfigure 14y agoThat doesn't explain the success of the expensive Android phones.
- hahainternet 14y agoI did and will. Your blanket denial of whole markets is rather ignorant.