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Living Room / Re: Welcome to Hell... iHell that is...
« on: October 23, 2010, 08:34 PM »Huh? Really? I didn't see any guidelines so I didn't know.
They're excluding Java software?
Sigh...
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does.-Renegade (October 23, 2010, 07:34 PM)
And it gets much worse. I tell you, long-time OS X developers are not happy about it, for this and a myriad of other reasons.
On the other side, the sizable group of Java developers who settled on a Mac to set up their development environment are not only unhappy, but also a bit afraid with the Java decision, even though most, if not all of them, work on server-side Java products, not client applications. According to John Gruber even Apple uses Java for their web services.
This is really what I'm worried about. I'm worried that Apple has gotten too powerful and their control-freakishness may infect other companies. I'm worried that down the road we may have our desktops, phones, laptops, TVs, cameras, and eventually homes all locked down into someone else's vision of what's good for us. (I include homes because home automation and the "digital home" is coming.)
Oh, but we have been going down that road for a while. The thing is, one way or another, we will not reach the destination, as the market does not accept dumb boxes. What we don't know is how many locks it will accept.