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iPhone's Development Limitations Could Hurt It In the Long Run
ZDOne writes "Apple might have finally come around to allowing third party developers to create applications for the iPhone, but only up to a point. ZDNet UK claims Apple is leaving itself vulnerable to the competition and to a loss of lustre
by blocking background tasks on the device. The author notes, 'Perhaps it doesn't trust application designers or users very much. Perhaps it wants the best software for itself, where it can limit what it can do in order not to upset its telco friends. Whatever the reason, it reflects badly on Apple. The iPhone is not an iPod; it's a smartphone connecting to a universe of fast-changing data on behalf of innovation-hungry users. The sooner it stops pretending to be a 1981 IBM PC, the better it will be for everyone.'"
Time to stop reading the crap in the Apple section of slashdot. If you look at the last 20 or so stories, the majority are written from the angle of what the Fake Steve Jobs calls "freetards" and Windows nuts. All these horrible, horrible things that are going to happen. Well, maybe, but they haven't happened yet. They've been predicted so often, and happened so little, that I think it's time for the fortune tellers and propagandists to get a new crystal ball. Not that there's anything at all wrong with Linux, or Windows, in their contexts. I like the Mac. Back when there was only OS 7, a product line that was on the road to ruin, it took some special fanaticism to stick with it. In my case, I had bought an SE30 when I had more money, and I had to hang onto it. It lasted about ten years, by the way. Well, it wrote screenplays. The Internet browser overwhelmed it. So I bought the iMac. Now I have a G5 tower and an Intel Mac mini, for about the cost of that old SE/30. I prefer it. I also use Windows, and I have Ubuntu in a Parallels. You don't hear me dissing them. I just like the Mac better. You don't have to, and Steve Jobs is not tunneling through your brainstem to deprive you of anything. For the moment, we're riding high. Have fun, toodle-ooh. I've got better things to do than to waste my time with you guys.