Gatekeeper true in a sense. But look at the good side of it that it allow developer especially the smaller home grown ones not to worry about hosting their apps and paying for hefty bandwidth downloads plus also the e-commerce side of it. Not to mention is much more easier for consumer to search in AppStore and have your application visible rather than hosting it themself and have to find ways to market the apps themselves
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01 Feb 10
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Now that there is an AppStore with applications in iTunes, why wouldn’t Apple move next to distribute all applications through iTunes – both desktop and mobile? There is no reason for them not to – the response to AppStore has been so enthusiastic that it is almost assured that you will start seeing desktop apps distributed in the same way. As soon as users are ground into looking at everything through iTunes, distribution of software in the traditional manner would be near impossible. Apple would become the gatekeeper, and both developers and users will enthusiastically pay the toll in exchange for pretty devices with pretty applications.
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12 Aug 08
brian rodneyGeeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony wa
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05 Aug 08
Adriana Lukasvery well put. and I speak as someone who is enjoying the new MacBook Air and considering buying an iPhone...
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31 Jul 08
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17 Jul 08
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David rGeeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications wrapped in DRM.
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16 Jul 08
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Marc Ordinas i LlopisI also wonder why so many vocal supporters of FOSS use Apple hardware and, even more strange, software. Is it because of the perceived "cool" status that goes with it?
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Chris HallApple has wrapped the iPhone SDK in enough licensing, security controls and right management that it would make the Microsoft Acive Desktop team blush
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