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iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone
Halo1 writes "Demonstrating it's not just about Flash, Apple has officially rejected for the first time another alternative iPhone development environment following its controversial iPhone SDK Agreement changes. Even though RunRev proposed to retool its HyperCard-style development environment to directly expose all of the iPhone OS's APIs, Steve Jobs still rejected its proposal. The strength of RunRev's business case, with a large-scale iPad deployment project in education hinging on the availability of its tool, does not bode well for projects that have less commercial clout. Salient point: at last February's shareholders' meeting, Jobs went on the record saying that something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, 'but someone would have to create it.'"
Did you really want an answer or did you just want to show off all your clever i* jokes?
If you truly believe that the PC is going to become a niche product then I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you.
I'd argue that the PC already has become a niche product among, for example, video gamers.
As a modern adult, I can attest to this. I even enjoy a good video game now and then, and still have a hard time spending money on a desktop PC considering I have a functional laptop and smartphone that both "do web". The desktop PC is very close (if not already arrived at) a niche for enthusiasts; laptops are simply easier and cheaper for the mainstream than the equivalent desktop. Just look at the trend of laptops vs desktops being sold. And soon, we will be saying the laptop has gone to the productivity niche and the tablet/smartphone/whatever is the new 'mainstream computing device'. It's what happens to every technology; eventually the fundamental design becomes obsolete as change takes place.
Android's going to flood the market, but, nothing's going to knock the wind out of Apple's sales.
BTW, Nokia's dead in the water and sinking fast. Even if they sell a large percentage of handsets, there aren't many people who are buying apps or particularly enthusiastic about their Nokia hardware. Even if it's a Symbian phone, it's largely seen as being a feature phone and I'd be willing to bet that less than %10 of people sync their Nokia devices with a computer, much less take full advantage of it as a smart device. In 2006, people were predicting the *death* of mobile app sales, funny enough.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Then get an unrestricted device. As vocal as some "freedom lovers" are there should be a market for such a thing. Put your money where your mouth is!
Wait, what was that? OpenMoko failed? It cannot be, there is a very vocal group who insist on freedom being good! What do you mean they kept buying locked-in devices instead? Why? So they could have something to whine about?
So, it was okay with Jobs to copy it from Xerox, but not for BG to do the same? Hypocrite is the word, my friend!
I think Apple licensed it from Xerox. But yeah, I share your opinion of Jobs. To paraphrase George Carlin:
Fuck Steve Jobs! Fuck him in the ass with a big rubber dick! Then break it off and beat him with it! I hope Steve dies. I do, I hope he goddamn dies. I hope he gets a hold of some tainted MP3s, and dies lonely and forgotten in the bathroom of some bad building in a poor neighborhood, with his hand in Wozniak's pants.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
It gets old hearing people repeat the bridge to nowhere myths born of political agendas and ignorance.
Translation: "Waaah. I thought it was a good idea to move to Bumfuck, Alaska and buy a house 30 miles from my place of employment, and now you ignorant libruls in New York City won't give me a share of your tax money so I can spend less time sitting in traffic. Waaah"