Re: Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a Little, Talk a Little!"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Amos H. Jessup" <amos () san rr com>
Date: May 25, 2009 3:03:57 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a   Little,  
Talk a Little!"


And they may well reach that point.  But it was not unreasonable, when  
they
launched a platform as innovative and different as the iPhone was, to  
feel
the need to dampen the volatility of "anyone can make any app" until  
they
had a fuller grasp of what it would be like in the wild, so to speak.

A
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Dan Gillmor <dan () gillmor com>
> Date: May 24, 2009 12:14:45 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Apple's iPhone Channels the Prudes -- "Pick a
> Little, Talk a Little!"
>
> > I think what Apple is doing makes good legal sense. If you saw the
> > recent litigation by Cartier against Apple, you see that people won't
> > sue the 3rd party apps authors; they'll sue deep pocket Apple.
>
> If it only "makes good legal sense" -- and that's debatable -- then
> the reason stems from Apple's original decision: to be the sole
> authority on what can be sold as an iPhone app in the first place.
>
> No one sues Microsoft for Windows apps that didn't come from Redmond,
> and no one sues Apple for Mac apps that didn't come from Cupertino,
> because those systems are open to all who want to create the apps.
> Apple could fix this easily by providing an open iPhone ecosystem, not
> a control-freak one.

--
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Is't not a Shame-is't not a Shame for him
So long in this Clay Suburb to abide?

Omar Khayam of Naishapur
The Rubaiyat

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) trans






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