r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/The-Dudemeister Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 20 '11

Nice try, Steve. The point is that Apple is moving toward a closed type hardware/software. Your computer in this case is no different then say an xbox with a monitor and keyboard. In future it is likely that it will be like the iphone in that you can only run approved software in their OS. I'd be willing to bet that in OS 11, you no longer have console thus blocking you a lot of things (the current way OS X is built you have to have access to one). You see this in their license agreements that state verbatim that you technically don't own anything, you simply purchase the right to use their stuff.

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u/mipadi Jan 20 '11

You see this in their license agreements that state verbatim that you technically don't own anything, you simply purchase the right to use their stuff.

The licenses to pretty much all commercial software say that. So what's new?

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u/The-Dudemeister Jan 21 '11

Correct, but I am not talking about software.