Apple Platform Lock-Ins, A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion

Iftekhar writes "Wil Shipley, of Delicious Monster fame, has written a very candid essay on what he perceives as Apple's growing trend toward platform lock-ins. He writes: 'Why is the iPhone locked to a single carrier, so I can't travel internationally with it? There's really only one viable reason: Apple wanted a share of the carrier's profits, which meant giving AT&T an exclusive deal. Which meant, we get screwed so Apple can make more money. It's that simple. [...] As Apple gets more and more of its revenue from non-Mac devices, they are also getting more and more of their revenue from devices that simply exclude third parties. Consumers suffer from this. We suffer from increased prices and decreased competition and innovation. We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money.'"

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Apple's dreaming at night...

[Shados]

that it is Microsoft. A soon as they get more than 15% market share in anything (got forbid higher like with the Ipods), they start pulling stunts and tricks to lock-in people, hardware, devs..

Steve Jobs makes Bill Gates and Ballmer look like open source zealots.

Re:Duh

[loftwyr]

Wait a minute! Are you saying Apple's OS was locked in to a single hardware manufacturer even though there were thousands of clones out there? I mean IBM, Compaq and Gateway all make Mac clones running the latest OSX, right?

Lock-in, yea right...

Re:Apple has always been a sleazy company

[stewbacca]

Wow. You are so NOT an Apple customer. Ever...Never...Ever. You simply don't get it, so don't go shitting on everyone else's parade. Dude, seriously, just look at what you wrote. I don't know a single Mac user who would ever use any of the terminology you used. Let it go man, you are not a Mac person, and we get it. Go play in another thread.

Oh, and kudos for digging up the oldest myth about Macs ever by invoking the Xerox claim. That kills your argument faster the fact that 99% of the people reading your post have no idea what you are talking about or how any one person could ever develop such a huge grudge. Did Steve Jobs stand you up or something?

I get it, you're just not very smart. How sad.

[SIIHP]

"Well it is an argument because I disagree."

That doesn't make it an argument, it just makes you an imbecile.

"You would have saved yourself some time and effort if you didn't bother to comment at all. Next time, just go with that."

Comedian, amuse thyself.