Apple is encouraging open standards development with this system. You can build web apps using standard HTML5, CSS3 etc to do most things, and they will ALL be available to use, and you can even have the user create a button on the home screen to use them. This is not "locking things down". All the whingers and complainers amuse me. They totally miss the point. I have no problems at all with the iTunes store model, with Apps and soon eBooks etc. It makes perfect sense to me. It maintains the quality and security of the system for everyone without the whole thing ending up in a Windows-esque debacle. If you don't like the model, then don't buy it. Nobody is forcing you to. (In the same way, nobody is forcing the people to buy the special Ford car mentioned below - it's all our choice) And considering the success of the iTunes store and the App store, I think the whingers are in a definite minority here. Go off somewhere else and cry...
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Apple is encouraging open standards development with this system. You can build web apps using standard HTML5, CSS3 etc to do most things, and they will ALL be available to use, and you can even have the user create a button on the home screen to use them. This is not "locking things down". All the whingers and complainers amuse me. They totally miss the point. I have no problems at all with the iTunes store model, with Apps and soon eBooks etc. It makes perfect sense to me. It maintains the quality and security of the system for everyone without the whole thing ending up in a Windows-esque debacle. If you don't like the model, then don't buy it. Nobody is forcing you to. (In the same way, nobody is forcing the people to buy the special Ford car mentioned below - it's all our choice) And considering the success of the iTunes store and the App store, I think the whingers are in a definite minority here. Go off somewhere else and cry...