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I don't see anything new in the behavior with the iPhone. Modifying hardware on a desktop is much easier then on a phone. That the hardware is proprietary isn'
by Zev 17y ago
I don't see anything new in the behavior with the iPhone.
Modifying hardware on a desktop is much easier then on a phone. That the hardware is proprietary isn't nearly as big of a deal here. Its all embedded, can't really be upgraded anyway.
Using a different OS isn't that big of a deal either. PreOS won't run on it, Android won't fully support iPhone's features, and why should Apple waste resources making their OS run on hardware they don't support?
Now, if you wanted to complain about the App Store policies being bad, thats a valid complaint. But not proprietary hardware.
- pj 17y agoThe proprietary i'm talking about with respect to the iphone is the app store. Not just anyone can write for the app store, you have to go through Apple. The point I'm making is that they are control freaks, always have been and it's not new. They want absolute control over their brand. I'm okay with that. It's their company. But I don't like their closed-ness, so I don't buy their closed products. I actually did buy a macbook pro though, precisely because it was more open than a PC -- it'll run windows or mac OS and that I like.