DISQUS

bstring · 3 months ago

What's to keep Apple from taking the same approach with OS X? Will they be free to reject Photoshop, Office, Firefox, etc. that alter OS X's distinctive user experience?

They are full of crap... and I am a one-time fanboy having owned 4 macs. Google Voice does not take away the iphone dialer, text msg app or visual voicemail. It only gives the user the CHOICE to use something different that they may find BETTER!

Good article with comments here
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-ap...

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/siliconalle...

erlichson · 3 months ago

I figured that the validity of apple's response would be debated well in the blogosphere. Arrington's article is excellent. In my opinion, Apple is still within their rights to create a product where they approve every app. They could do it for os x too, but they never would because in the desktop computer market, the ecosystem is too big to control and the extensibility by the end user w/o company permission is a selling feature.

Microsoft probably could not do it for windows, because the courts have rules they are a monopoly and hence are subject to greater scrutiny. It is interesting that certain behaviors are legal on your way to being a monopoly and then illegal once you get there.