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Um, as the person you replied to in that thread, I thought it was pretty obvious they were going to break it. From Apple's perspective, the ability to sync a Pr

by GHFigs 17y ago

Um, as the person you replied to in that thread, I thought it was pretty obvious they were going to break it. From Apple's perspective, the ability to sync a Pre is a bug, and they fixed it as they would any other. What isn't obvious is why you seem to find it so offensive and threatening.

ars 17y ago
I don't find it threatening, but I do find it offensive. Apple is harming consumers (it's own customers of music players), in order to protect it's market share in a related product. It's just not ethical behavior. Some people tried to say "they just don't support it", but that's not so, they broke it deliberately. (And I know it was deliberate because they said in advance that they would do it.) So that's what surprised me so much - that people, (you for example), just don't care that they would do that. It's something microsoft does, and everyone hates them for it. Why don't people care when apple does it?
- GHFigs 17y ago
  I don't get it. Why should Apple support the Pre if they don't want to? Palm is perfectly capable of developing their own software that syncs with an iTunes library, and Apple has done nothing to prevent that. (RIM and Nokia both have such software, and DoubleTwist supports the Pre.) Why is it offensive it Apple chooses not to let their competitors parasitically hijack their software? Why is that any different from any other bug that produces undesirable behavior?
  - ars 17y ago
    They should simply ignore Palm. Instead they chose to actively block them.
    - GHFigs 17y ago
      They didn't actively do anything to Palm. Apple fixed a bug in their software that causes what they think is undesirable behavior. Suggesting that a company should avoid fixing bugs in it's software if it would potentially harm their competitors is a little bit on the silly side. I don't know of any business that operates on that principle.

by GHFigs 17y ago

ars 17y ago

I don't find it threatening, but I do find it offensive. Apple is harming consumers (it's own customers of music players), in order to protect it's market share in a related product. It's just not ethical behavior. Some people tried to say "they just don't support it", but that's not so, they broke it deliberately. (And I know it was deliberate because they said in advance that they would do it.) So that's what surprised me so much - that people, (you for example), just don't care that they would do that. It's something microsoft does, and everyone hates them for it. Why don't people care when apple does it?

GHFigs 17y ago
I don't get it. Why should Apple support the Pre if they don't want to? Palm is perfectly capable of developing their own software that syncs with an iTunes library, and Apple has done nothing to prevent that. (RIM and Nokia both have such software, and DoubleTwist supports the Pre.) Why is it offensive it Apple chooses not to let their competitors parasitically hijack their software? Why is that any different from any other bug that produces undesirable behavior?
- ars 17y ago
  They should simply ignore Palm. Instead they chose to actively block them.
  - GHFigs 17y ago
    They didn't actively do anything to Palm. Apple fixed a bug in their software that causes what they think is undesirable behavior. Suggesting that a company should avoid fixing bugs in it's software if it would potentially harm their competitors is a little bit on the silly side. I don't know of any business that operates on that principle.