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Reply #15 Posted on: April 11, 2010, 07:17:54 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
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"In software engineering, a compatibility layer allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system." That means WINE and the like. ENIGMA selects native code, and then compiles it natively. If anything, you should be arguing that it's a tool for "intermediary translation."
However, that particular clause illegalizes... practically everything.
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Reply #19 Posted on: April 11, 2010, 09:47:00 pm |
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"So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobe’s Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, there’s no lock-in advantage. If, say, a mobile Flash software platform — which encompassed multiple lower-level platforms, running on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry — were established, that app market would not give people a reason to prefer the iPhone."
"We think John Gruber’s post is very insightful and not negative: ... Steve"
Sounds like Noodle was right, to me.
Anyway, yes, ENIGMA clearly meets the definition of what they're trying to outlaw, but I believe you'll soon find that just because a wanna-be big, bad corporation wants to outlaw something, doesn't mean they're going to manage it. Take Yoyo's EULA as an example, not that I would suggest any of those morons have half the legal prowess of Apple. That said, however, what we have here seems to be a case of "Same shit, different company."
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Reply #22 Posted on: April 12, 2010, 02:01:24 pm |
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But Apple really NEEDS an antitrust investigation right now.
I say antitrust should be strangled and killed. If apple wants to restrict who can put apps on their iPhone, it's their right. If you made an awesome handheld, you'd want to be able to limit which games can be played on it. Apple is not obligated to provide an open-platform. The app store is THEIR service, and they have the right to control who gets to benefit from that service.
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Reply #23 Posted on: April 12, 2010, 04:14:13 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
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"If apple wants to restrict who can put apps on their iPhone, it's their right." On their store, yes. On their phone, no.
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Reply #25 Posted on: April 12, 2010, 10:51:10 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
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"Unless you have to agree to some contract/EULA/something before using that phone. Then yes." Fair use.
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Reply #26 Posted on: April 19, 2010, 08:27:48 am |
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Not only the iPhone has a great market share, but with the OS comes standardized hardware. Nokia may have sold many more phones, but only a tiny fraction of those phones could run 3D games, let lone run them fluently. Therefore development stagnated.
We need to recognize that Apple has succesfully created and monopolized the biggest market for mobile apps ever. If you want to access that market, you have to pay. This is simply not right. Corporations are always invoking free market, but this is what we really get, lock-in.
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