4 Jul
2012
4 Jul
'12
12:46 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
Exactly. People who care about being able to futz with stuff will continue to futz about
with stuff they can futz with. Some will play with open stuff and use closed stuff as a
'commodity' device, like I use my iPhone. Others will hack their commodity devices
to make them do what they want. The problem here is not that the change in paradigm of
deices kills xyz it's that the ideas of how devices are built and work are changing
rapidly and the open community needs to catch up and stop pushing OSs and software for
desktops when they are going out of fashion as anything other than overgrown games
consoles.
I'm sure they will. However, if I want to write popular stuff, that
the great unwashed will use, I will have to use Apple's outdated
crappy tools? Then I have to submit to them to distribute it?
This is what Microsoft and Apple want, and have wanted forever,
complete control of the "ecosystem". It is too much power to be put
in their corporate hands.
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