Laughable speech.
The speaker knows very little about if anything about
engineering and even less about the software business One of
the very reasons why Windows is such a mess is that it is open
in the sense that anyone call write and deploy apps on it. Now
the Windows platform is loaded with so much crape-ware,
bloatware and viruses. That is the very reason many users
move to mac and linux while most corporates use SUN or Linux
as server OS's. iPhone is a platform to host applications.
It is simply good business and engineering sense to filter out
the garbage before letting applications be deployed on the
platform. It does not stop innovation, rather is enhances it by
forcing developers to write good apps using good code. If
there was no check in place, many many apps would be
deployed for not so admirable purposes.
Please Mr Law Professor, Keep your lectures to what you know,
namely the law and leave technology to the technologists. And
in case you are wondering , I am an IT Director for a global
company.
According to Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain…Yes. In this compelling video from BNET, Zittrain walks us through the flow of innovation and demonstrates that while you may have the amazingly wonderful IPhone and I may have a dazzling app for it, we won’t be interacting without first identifying ourselves to Apple and gaining approval. He also reminds of some other innovative new platforms where unlike a truly open market a corporation still controls all engagement.
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