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To the whole group claiming people are over reacting. No people are specifically NOT over reacting. Many are in fact doing the smart thing and examining the POTENTIAL harm this can do to their not insignificant investment both financially and in terms of trust as well as how they use these devices to get things they expect to be able to use them for done.
It has been noted over and over that nothing is done yet. And also this refers to an already existing policy. However that policy has been, at best, loosely enforced as well as, it would seem, in a arbitrary fashion. And the way Apple has decided to go after things now will affect not the individual apps and the companies these were written specifically for but it will directly affect the consumer. It will devalue the investment and the devices.
I think the biggest concern among people is where will it end and exactly how Draconian will Apple become over the next couple years? Apple is and has always been a very abusive company in terms of their treatment of consumers. But people know this when they buy into Apple as a platform. I hate the use of echo-system though it might be the best analogy though I do not feel the need to introduce these buzzwords. We have enough of that crap already.
Apple has long been and still remains one of the biggest impediments to true inter-operable computing platforms. This decision is far worse than their with the $20 fee to upgrade the OS on the first generation of Touches. Only this time they used another set of companies to build their user base and now seem on the verge of yanking that rug out from under those companies AND the users who trusted they were actually buying stability by spending their very hard earned dollars on Apple products.
People assumed they were buying a stable product. This means an OS that is not a constantly moving target as well as not having the very app(s) which induced them to spend the premium on the name, disappear overnight. Leaving the user with the potentiality that features used to get their cash today are far from a given tomorrow. And even if Apple eventually changes how this is managed, it has confirmed to those who never owned an Apple product because of the very closed nature of their systems yet loved the idea of what the iPad/Touch and even the iPhone offered them in terms of stability and consistency, but it confirms or at minimum increases the doubt if Apple is worth the investment of cash and trust.
I feel Apple needs to assure users that access to apps which were ALREADY APPROVED and the data those apps are used to access will not disappear from the device now or in the future. And this is the real issue at hand. I don't care if people are misinterpreting things, as if this is the case Apple created the entire issue using a very poorly worded press release/announcement. It is incumbent on Apple to assure the users not for the users to just sit back and say "...just don't stick it in too far". Many of the most wary users are NOT owners of any Apple products in the past and are used to a case of if we buy it then we can use it however the crap we want.
I see this as pushing a LOT of people into jailbreaking their devices leaving Apple behind period. And those who don't will likely jump back to platforms they know and trust to not remove functionality just because they said they could but had chosen not to enforce their own rules from the beginning.
Anyway, that is how I view the issue. Apple needs to step up and fix this. I know for now any interest I had in iOS devices after really liking the Touch 4th gen device I had for a couple weeks is now completely, well not completely, but to the point where Apple must earn my business over the coming months. I do not feel unique in this regard.
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