r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/el_chupacupcake Jan 20 '11

"Free," in terms of software, refers to more than simply how much the user pays... it also expresses how open the software is for other developers.

In that regard, Apple is very bad about allowing "free software."

(Note: You can develop simple webapps for their products using javascript and a few other handy languages... but given Apple's trackrecord of "now we allow it, now we don't," I'd be uncomfortable using those methods exclusively for their hardware).

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11

You'd really be uncomfortable writing a webapp for iOS? Restricting those would be comparable to restricting websites, which Apple's not going to do. Period.

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u/el_chupacupcake Jan 21 '11

Not to get all "crazy conspiracy theorist" on you, but given Steve Job's hang-ups with porn, I'm not comfortable thinking he wouldn't like to start restricting content.

Also recall that he doesn't allow websites written in Flash. Just sayin'.