Everyone’s going to be having a love-fest this week over the new 3rd-party apps being developed for the iPhone. They’ve got streaming media, location-based services, bidirectional news and blogging tools, and full 3D-accelerated games.
…and every bit of it is tightly coupled to the iPhone and its restrictive platform lock-down. This makes Microsoft’s attempts to push IE-specific browser extensions looks downright innocuous.
No wonder the music labels and Hollywood studios consider Apple a threat: they’re out-maneuvering them at every turn, and their customers thank them for it. The same evil that gets MS roundly condemned from here to Slashdot is accepted with a smile because the hardware is just so damn sexy.
Oh well. I guess I’ll just hang out in my un-sexy computing ghetto. Having been a Linux user since the days when Slackware was the big dog, I’ve certainly gotten used to being a second-class citizen when it comes to any sort of commercial development.
this is why i will be buying openmoko.