Steve Jobs - the smart way to sell proprietary hard and software
One of the things that really annoys anyone who has not fallen under Apple’s magic spell is that they lock down the market with proprietary hardware and software. For anyone who is concerned about open systems, freedom and democracy this is not a good thing. This opinion has some very influential people behind it.
Possibly the most important person to criticize Apple for their over reliance on proprietary software was Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web. He wrote in a famous article in Scientific American, Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality, that open standards foster creativity while closed standards ‘creates closed worlds’ He gives the example of using iTunes which doesn’t use http, but instead itunes: and this he believes takes you off the web and closes down innovation.
Anyone who is a keen player of games will probably be fed up with the small number of games that actually work on Macs. People who play partypoker PL will be slightly miffed that they have to use their Java-based ‘instant play’ system. Most PC Gamers will be really annoyed that you can play so few games on Macs - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one particularly notable example.
The computer freedom guru Richard Stallman has said that he is glad that Steve Jobs (who The Economist magazine called The Minister of Magic) is gone. Now, before you get too outraged, he said he glad he and his influence is gone, not that he is glad that he died young-ish of cancer. Stallman believes that Jobs turned computers into prison and then made that prison seem ‘cool’ to the in-mates. All us Mac-o-Phobes, will probably agree with his opinion that we can only hope that Jobs’s successors will be less effective than the man himself.
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You have quite a point of view about Steve Jobs’ influence on proprietary software and hardware. Opposed to Linux and Windows, and some mobile operating system that saw the software and hardware world as a free word, a paradise for developers, Mac world is thought to monopolize intellectual properties and to exploit world like China or Taiwan, transforming them into the silent workers for the rich.
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