Joe Hewitt can spout off from behind the spam-ridden walled garden that is Facebook as much as he likes, his employers will keep building iPhone apps. Justin Williams is not even stopping developing iPhone apps according to your quote. And if you look hard enough you will find off pissed off developers on any platform (see also the case of Gameloft and Android)
You still don't have any numbers or facts that support the Idea of a widespread 'backlash' that would substantially affect the leads the Appstore currently holds.
Got any stats to back up the assertions about a 'backlash'? Such as less apps being submitted or a verifiable drop in quality of Apps?
And why are respected devs like Gameloft quoted as saying there is indeed a problem with the Android Market that leads to reduced investment by games developers?
Trying to apease tech bloggers is not the way to make a long term strategy. Apple proved it had a long term strategy when it dropped the floppy and introduced USB and Firewire on the Mac.
It also showed its ability for a 'long term' by introducing the iPod (which I believe was regarded as a joke by tech bloggers at the time), Apple invested a lot of money and prestige in building up iTunes, which for the first time allowed a legitimate and profitable distribution model to help the record industry out of their embarrassing situation (note that DRM was forced on Apple by the RIAA for a long time).
That is long term thinking. Apple, again showed their ability to thing long term when they brought out the iPhone, not as a phone but as a platform which, due to their long term planning fitted into the iTunes infrastructure and, with some additional long term thinking behind it, expanded it.
At the same time Apple have furthered the cause of webkit and web standards, allow anyone access to their technology such as iTunes, use mainly standard file formats such as MP4 and publish their iTunes playlists as xml, and refuse to accept proprietary web technologies such as Flash and Silverlight.
Palm hired a few ex-Apple employees, came up with a so-so phone, and tried to ride piggy-back on their competitors success to save themselves a few bucks and hope for bloggers sympathy.
It is W.R.O.N.G because you can reasonably expect commercial entities to put some of their own effort into their products and not fake stuff. Faking is W.R.O.N.G. Abusing others labour without permission is W.R.O.N.G.
Telling your customers you have seamless integration with iTunes when you haven't is W.R.O.N.G. Accusing Apple of breaking rules when you are in fact doing it is W.R.O.N.G
You don't seem to understand that Apple is already providing other companies with the software and the connections (specially provided xml files) to take advantage of the Apple the iTunes infrastructure.
Palm are W.R.O.N.G, have been put in their place, and are retreating. I think you are one of the few people who still don't understand that...
Apple is not locking anybody out of iTunes. The files for playlists are available to anyone who wants them. Syncing with iTunes is easy. I am not much of a programmer but even I can use xml files.
There are even alternatives to iTunes for managing music already on the market. Apple is not keeping Palm from their users enjoying music bought from iTunes, it is Palm who have let their customers down in a big way, if not downright deceived them by claiming seamless iTunes integration, and abused their trust by using illegal means to provide the sync.
Palm have a great history of great products, but it's entirely their own fault they are the underdog here, that some people think they have to rout for at all cost. Palm had the PDA market in the 'palm' of their hand but they let Microsoft in and stopped innovating. Instead they hooked up with MS and were eventually hung out to dry.
Palm should have sorted out the media side of their devices thoroughly before going to market, they are now doing the decent thing and moving to Amazon, which they should probably have done in the first place. And they should still provide their customers with an iTunes connection, which they easily and legally could provide. Alas, that would not give them the sympathy vote from the tech blogging crowd, so probably they may deem it too much hard work and Pre users are the ones who are missing out...
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Re: Re: Numbers please�
Joe Hewitt can spout off from behind the spam-ridden walled garden that is Facebook as much as he likes, his employers will keep building iPhone apps. Justin Williams is not even stopping developing iPhone apps according to your quote. And if you look hard enough you will find off pissed off developers on any platform (see also the case of Gameloft and Android)
You still don't have any numbers or facts that support the Idea of a widespread 'backlash' that would substantially affect the leads the Appstore currently holds.
Re: Go away Apple trolls
"maybe software developers should own a different piece of hardware for every different system that they intend to write software for."
Yep, I agree, they should. Thanks for pointing that out.
Numbers please…
Got any stats to back up the assertions about a 'backlash'? Such as less apps being submitted or a verifiable drop in quality of Apps?
And why are respected devs like Gameloft quoted as saying there is indeed a problem with the Android Market that leads to reduced investment by games developers?
Re: Re: Um, what?
"Doing this has long term negative consequences"
Trying to apease tech bloggers is not the way to make a long term strategy. Apple proved it had a long term strategy when it dropped the floppy and introduced USB and Firewire on the Mac.
It also showed its ability for a 'long term' by introducing the iPod (which I believe was regarded as a joke by tech bloggers at the time), Apple invested a lot of money and prestige in building up iTunes, which for the first time allowed a legitimate and profitable distribution model to help the record industry out of their embarrassing situation (note that DRM was forced on Apple by the RIAA for a long time).
That is long term thinking. Apple, again showed their ability to thing long term when they brought out the iPhone, not as a phone but as a platform which, due to their long term planning fitted into the iTunes infrastructure and, with some additional long term thinking behind it, expanded it.
At the same time Apple have furthered the cause of webkit and web standards, allow anyone access to their technology such as iTunes, use mainly standard file formats such as MP4 and publish their iTunes playlists as xml, and refuse to accept proprietary web technologies such as Flash and Silverlight.
Palm hired a few ex-Apple employees, came up with a so-so phone, and tried to ride piggy-back on their competitors success to save themselves a few bucks and hope for bloggers sympathy.
Who is thinking long term here?
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It is W.R.O.N.G because you can reasonably expect commercial entities to put some of their own effort into their products and not fake stuff. Faking is W.R.O.N.G. Abusing others labour without permission is W.R.O.N.G.
Telling your customers you have seamless integration with iTunes when you haven't is W.R.O.N.G. Accusing Apple of breaking rules when you are in fact doing it is W.R.O.N.G
You don't seem to understand that Apple is already providing other companies with the software and the connections (specially provided xml files) to take advantage of the Apple the iTunes infrastructure.
Palm are W.R.O.N.G, have been put in their place, and are retreating. I think you are one of the few people who still don't understand that...
One more time...
Apple is not locking anybody out of iTunes. The files for playlists are available to anyone who wants them. Syncing with iTunes is easy. I am not much of a programmer but even I can use xml files.
There are even alternatives to iTunes for managing music already on the market. Apple is not keeping Palm from their users enjoying music bought from iTunes, it is Palm who have let their customers down in a big way, if not downright deceived them by claiming seamless iTunes integration, and abused their trust by using illegal means to provide the sync.
Palm have a great history of great products, but it's entirely their own fault they are the underdog here, that some people think they have to rout for at all cost. Palm had the PDA market in the 'palm' of their hand but they let Microsoft in and stopped innovating. Instead they hooked up with MS and were eventually hung out to dry.
Palm should have sorted out the media side of their devices thoroughly before going to market, they are now doing the decent thing and moving to Amazon, which they should probably have done in the first place. And they should still provide their customers with an iTunes connection, which they easily and legally could provide. Alas, that would not give them the sympathy vote from the tech blogging crowd, so probably they may deem it too much hard work and Pre users are the ones who are missing out...