Apple and the Scalability of Secrecy

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 31, 2009 @06:10PM from the ask-the-government-about-that dept.

RobotsDinner writes "Anil Dash has a thoughtful exploration of Apple's notorious devotion to secrecy, and argues that not only is there a limit to its feasibility, but that recent events show Apple has reached that limit already. 'If the ethical argument is unpersuasive, then focus on the long-term viability of your marketing and branding efforts, and realize that a technology company that is determined to prevent information from being spread is an organization at war with itself. Civil wars are expensive, have no winners, and incur lots of casualties.'"

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I bought an ipod touch today, it's going back. by kawabago · 2009-07-31 18:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I bought an ipod touch today only to find out that without iTunes you can't access it at all. I'm running Linux and iTunes doesn't work with Wine. Ipod touch goes back in the morning. The ipod touch and the iphone have such hideous vendor lock in Microsoft must get a hard on just thinking about it. I hate Microsoft and now Apple is starting to give me a rash. Openness where are you?