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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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.





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