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Haha.. > "... Reverse engineering is, among other things, largely responsible for the PC revolution and the computing landscape we enjoy today. Should we stop
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
Haha..
> "... Reverse engineering is, among other things, largely responsible for the PC revolution and the computing landscape we enjoy today. Should we stop providing users with products that work together simply because other vendors dislike competition?"
We all know Apple loves reverse-engineering of its products, so I'm sure this kind of reasoning helps your case.
- trobertson 14y agoBear in mind, however, that reverse engineering is also respected at Apple (or it used to be, a couple years ago). I remember reading a story where Steve Jobs personally visited and tried to buy Dropbox, because they reverse engineered Apple's file system, or something like that.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoEver heard "do as I say, not as I do"? :) That's Apple talking to us.
- simcop2387 14y agoDon't know why they'd need to do that, what i suspect it could be would be reverse engineering the kernel interface to add their own. That way they can do a very much nicer automatic sync with their service that won't have as many issues. I believe they do it that way on linux with FUSE and with IFS on windows.
- Xuzz 14y agoDropbox is just a folder — the reverse engineering was to inject themselves into the Finder for their custom icons and context menus.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoReverse engineering for interoperability is protected by law, regardless of Apple's wishes. So it helps their case for legal purposes, just not in the app store court run by Apple. The problem here is that Apple's wishes can be and are regularly applied in the app store regardless of whether they're actually good for the users(disallowing malware is good). This is a nasty side effect of the app store model and we'll be seeing more of such issues in the future with the Windows 8 Metro app store.