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Originally Posted by kennyc
You have the choice not to write it.
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Many people who begin to write whatever app for a device they own choose to do it a while after buying said device. They are just satisfying an itch to tinker.
Apple's philosophie is to not allow you to do so. Actually, it's even worse than that since they actively try to prevent you from doing so.
I have no Apple device, and as long as they keep that philosophy I have no plan of ever buying one. But not being directly affected by their decisions doesn't mean I have no opinion about them, especially when this kind of behavior has such traction with nowadays companies.
I'll refer you to
this, article about the ipad from John Gruber. From my point of view, the relevant part is that:
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Such is the march of progress. 40 years ago you could open the hood of your car and see and touch just about every component in there. And you had to, because many of those components required frequent maintenance. To properly own a car required, to some degree, that you understood how a car worked. Today, you open the hood of your car and you see a big sealed block and a basin for the windshield washer fluid. You can buy a new car, drive it for years, and never once open the hood yourself.
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It appears Mr Gruber sees that as some kind of progress. I see it as not really owning what you bought: to be able to repair anything on your car (apart from a flat tire), you need to go to a garage which has the appropriate computer they bought from the maker (for a really significant amount of money). But the first purpose of said computer is not to be able to repair the electronics, it's to tell the car's onboard computer that repair have been performed by a licenced person and that it can allow the car to start.
When what you can do with a device is limited by its designer for the sole purpose to extract one more buck out of your wallet, I don't see that as progress. And no, if I need a car, I can't "opt-out", for every car-maker does it now.