Oh, Apple Computer. What sorts of antics are you into this month?
Since the iPhone was released two years ago, watching Apple keep its obsessive vise grip on the device while trying to promote third party application development has been one solid I-didn’t-know-you-could-do-that after another.
Battle the recording industry for liberal music licensing terms and build the largest online music store, all the while living out the RIAA’s wet dream by manually approving every bit of code that runs on a computing device? I didn’t know you could do that.
Being run by an ex-hippie CEO who used to spike his Oolong tea with LSD, and then carrying on Jerry Falwell’s legacy by protecting the children from iPhone programs that show a bit too much skin? I didn’t know you could do that.
Have a board member whose own company makes a device that directly competes with your bread and butter? Well, I knew you could do that in Silicon Valley, because we’re all such good friends.
That is, at least, until the old crusties from AT&T show up with their Geritol and single letter ticker symbol. Here in the Valley, we run more at a line-of-blow-off-a-stripper’s-ass speed, so when Apple rejected the Google Voice application for the iPhone, everyone suspected that AT&T strong-armed them into kicking the Google to the curb. In fact, the move was so out of character that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — the governmental agency responsible for keeping seven dirty words off the public airwaves — started asking questions. Well, Apple got all butthurt and went on the defensive, posting an open reply to the FCC on their website.
Ted Dziuba, “Feds break Apple’s code of App Store silence: Heads you’re in. Tails you’re out”, The Register, 2009-08-31
August 31, 2009
QotD: Apple’s App Store Antics
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