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Shooting yourself in the foot.
I don't buy the whole Apple is evil and their walled garden hurts
consumers line. I enjoy being in the Apple garden and I am willing to
pay a bit extra for it because everything just works well together,
viruses are kept to a minimum, etc, etc. Forcing open the platform
through legal means would piss me as a consumer off. I bought in
with the full knowledge that I would be locked in, to a degree, in
Apple's world. People who complain after the fact have no justification
whatsoever.

At the same time I think Apple is doing the worst possible thing it
could do to keep their status quo intact. If Apple just ignored the
hackers and let them develop without interference then we could have
the best of both worlds. People who want to stay in the apple
ecosystem could and people who want to hack can. Apple should
frown upon it but not do anything to actively stop them.

Sometimes I think Apple's legal department exists in its own
Cupertino vacuum.

If apple continues to look like a bully (even though i think that
characterization is fallacious) then its going to get its walled garden
torn down and no one but the hackers are going to be happy. Not
having centralized control over the platform would remove all the
benefits of the Apple ecosystem to me.
Posted by: ChrisOPeterson   Posted on: 02/19/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Shooting yourself in the foot.  ChrisOPeterson | 02/19/09
Paraphrase?  MGP2 | 02/19/09
Zing!! nt  midenginedrift | 02/20/09
I truly hope you will be okay in the long term  NonZealot | 02/19/09
monomaniac octopus  var/tmp | 02/19/09
right....  daMan25 | 02/19/09
You're the one that needs help  GoPower | 02/19/09
What do you mean "before"? nt  Marcos El Malo | 02/19/09
it's his choice  markbn | 02/20/09
Funny stuff....  daMan25 | 02/19/09
I agree, at least to a degree...  Cayble | 02/19/09
RE: Is Mozilla after Apple?s halo?  Juan2772 | 02/19/09
When you can no longer create good products  GuidingLight | 02/19/09
RE: Is Mozilla after Apple?s halo?  var/tmp | 02/19/09
Can you explain the poll?  TripleII | 02/19/09
Apple has every right  jorjitop | 02/19/09
Walls and fences are...  arminw | 02/20/09
If it is such a good idea, why not expand it to desktop?  NonZealot | 02/20/09
Because...  Userama | 02/20/09
You don't????  MGP2 | 02/20/09
Skype does not have access to 911  markbn | 02/20/09
MagicJack does...  MGP2 | 02/20/09
Magicjack  scottseattle | 02/20/09
Taken to the extreme  markbn | 02/20/09
You should be able to install anything you want on an iPhone...  Userama | 02/19/09
Yeah, the farting apps were surely chosen  markbn | 02/20/09
Adrian this isn't their first salvo either...  Gnutella | 02/19/09
RE: Is Mozilla after Apple?s halo?  mkathiravone | 02/19/09
Connecting dots  honeymonster | 02/19/09
Tell that to the Google apologists  markbn | 02/20/09
All about public image/perception  iTeaBoy | 02/20/09
Apple has a halo?  NStalnecker | 02/20/09
I don't think you understand..  msalzberg | 02/20/09
You're the one who doesn't understand.  masonwheeler | 02/20/09
You have to understand the Apple zealot point of view  NonZealot | 02/20/09
You do mean...  msalzberg | 02/20/09
No, you don't understand...  msalzberg | 02/20/09
re: No, you don't understand...  Tsingi | 02/20/09
You're getting worse...  masonwheeler | 02/23/09
Re: Statute of Anne  Tsingi | 02/20/09
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MS vs Apple vs GNU/Linux  Tsingi | 02/20/09
Open source principles?  erikswanson | 02/20/09
Just imagine...  fungo | 02/21/09
you DO have an option...  tmsmqwx | 02/23/09

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