Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Nov 2009 16:11 UTC
We're all familiar with the fact that Apple has trouble managing its App Store. While it is overflowing with applications, Apple governs it willy-nilly, and the web is rife with stories from developers who had their application rejected for no apparent reason. There's now a new issue we can add to the list. Are you an iPhone developer? Do you want a similar, competing application out of the App Store? All you need to do is send an infringement claim to Apple, and they'll happily threaten to remove the competing application without a second thought. Update: And here's a similar case, about Stoneloops! vs. Luxor.
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Which goes back to what I said about the iPod/iPhone - they should allow people to load on applications without needing to use AppStore where by the end user uses some weird key combination that unlocks it (thus they lose technical support as a result); that way the morons are protected from themselves, the network providers know their network isn't going to be clogged with excess traffic and those of us who know what we're doing have the freedom.
It would be a win-win-win situation but buggered if kow why Apple hasn't done it - control freaks or the mobile network providers have Apple by the balls? AT&T have denied it but for some reason I find it unconvincing that Apple would go to the extent that they have to stop unauthorised third software being loaded. The reason for that was a remark a few years of ago about AT&T not wanting their 'network bought down' by a misbehaving application.
It is the same issue of DRM; if Microsoft and Apple could get away with not having to provide DRM in their software - they would. It would be one less piece of technology they would have to write and maintain. As much as people like to label Apple and Steve Jobs as control freaks, I think there is a lot more at play behind the scenes which we aren't privy to.
Edited 2009-11-09 04:28 UTC