Given the web is so wide open and been available for over 20 years to the public, I fail to see how Apple is responsible for this lock-in trend.
Rather Apple has aptly uncovered an untapped desire among the public, which the web failed to provide.
Yes, you can say Apple started it, so they're responsible. But this desire was ready for the pickin's. I don't fault Apple for picking it up. It must have been obvious to them.
Yes, but a 30% cut gives them all incentive in the world to further destroy the open marketplace (html). I do not have evidence that it is happening - but this must be an Apple goal. Simply because of how they are profiting from this arrangement.
Or, to put it another way: the financial incentives for Apple are not at all aligned with my personal interests.
Whereas I can not say the same thing about Google. I do not see how their financial incentives are colliding with my personal interests. Yes, privacy is a concern, but I am not - that I know - affected by that, and there are worse players here (Facebook).
So you're claiming that the company who initially pushed web apps as the iPhone API but caved under pressure from developers, the same company who developed webkit. You're claiming this company is trying to destroy the web?
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Given the web is so wide open and been available for over 20 years to the public, I fail to see how Apple is responsible for this lock-in trend.
Rather Apple has aptly uncovered an untapped desire among the public, which the web failed to provide.
Yes, you can say Apple started it, so they're responsible. But this desire was ready for the pickin's. I don't fault Apple for picking it up. It must have been obvious to them.
Yes, but a 30% cut gives them all incentive in the world to further destroy the open marketplace (html). I do not have evidence that it is happening - but this must be an Apple goal. Simply because of how they are profiting from this arrangement.
Or, to put it another way: the financial incentives for Apple are not at all aligned with my personal interests.
Whereas I can not say the same thing about Google. I do not see how their financial incentives are colliding with my personal interests. Yes, privacy is a concern, but I am not - that I know - affected by that, and there are worse players here (Facebook).
In that light, Apple==bad, Google==good.
So you're claiming that the company who initially pushed web apps as the iPhone API but caved under pressure from developers, the same company who developed webkit. You're claiming this company is trying to destroy the web?
Do you not think that's a little unjustified?
With Google you are the product, with Apple you are the customer. I like Google but I trust Apple.