To keep in tune with your analogy, it's not so much the architect / engineers that are building the house that are wanting to prevent you from doing things, it's the outside influences.
Similar to how local government in the United States can dictate guidelines on how your house should look externally etc, building code on how it should be constructed etc.
Basically it's the MPAA that are really creating these restrictions, not Apple.
> it's not so much the architect / engineers that are building the house that are wanting to prevent you from doing things, it's the outside influences.
I wonder what "outside influence" runs the iTunes store?
IMO parent is right, the situation looks like real estate developer with interest in selling as many apartments as possible selling you a "smart" apartment which counts people inside and doesn't allow more than one family to live there.
If you're talking about the App store then no one. If it's the approval process that you're worried about then that's an issue with their philosophy
If we're talking about the rest of the store where they sell books and movies and music you better believe that there is outside influence dictating how they can sell products.
I'd also be curious to know if anyone complaining about this has actually seen the OS and screenshot and dvd player source code. There could be technical limitations that we are not aware of. Chances are that there are none, and if that's the case then you only have the movie studios to blame, not apple.
> If we're talking about the rest of the store where they sell books and movies and music you better believe that there is outside influence dictating how they can sell products.
Yes, obviously I'm talking about this. And the issue is not about how they sell these products, but what they want customers to do with other media. I don't think any studio would deny them permission to sell their stuff just because it's possible to screenshot DVD movies purchased in the meat world.
And face it, by running this store Apple has as much interest as Hollywood in indoctrinating people that "The Content shall never be copied".
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To keep in tune with your analogy, it's not so much the architect / engineers that are building the house that are wanting to prevent you from doing things, it's the outside influences.
Similar to how local government in the United States can dictate guidelines on how your house should look externally etc, building code on how it should be constructed etc.
Basically it's the MPAA that are really creating these restrictions, not Apple.
> it's not so much the architect / engineers that are building the house that are wanting to prevent you from doing things, it's the outside influences.
I wonder what "outside influence" runs the iTunes store?
IMO parent is right, the situation looks like real estate developer with interest in selling as many apartments as possible selling you a "smart" apartment which counts people inside and doesn't allow more than one family to live there.
If you're talking about the App store then no one. If it's the approval process that you're worried about then that's an issue with their philosophy
If we're talking about the rest of the store where they sell books and movies and music you better believe that there is outside influence dictating how they can sell products.
I'd also be curious to know if anyone complaining about this has actually seen the OS and screenshot and dvd player source code. There could be technical limitations that we are not aware of. Chances are that there are none, and if that's the case then you only have the movie studios to blame, not apple.
> If we're talking about the rest of the store where they sell books and movies and music you better believe that there is outside influence dictating how they can sell products.
Yes, obviously I'm talking about this. And the issue is not about how they sell these products, but what they want customers to do with other media. I don't think any studio would deny them permission to sell their stuff just because it's possible to screenshot DVD movies purchased in the meat world.
And face it, by running this store Apple has as much interest as Hollywood in indoctrinating people that "The Content shall never be copied".