The walls of Apple's walled garden are getting higher, and life outside the garden looks better and better

Story: Why I Switched from iPhone to Android


Yay! Finally people are starting to notice and pay attention to what they have to give up by entering/encouraging the walled garden. The recent news about Android Now Outselling iPhone is the sign of the tide turning against Apple

U.S. probes Apple digital music dominance

Story: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64P6Z920100526

According to the story, Apple had used its market dominance to prevent labels from agreeing to let Amazon.com exclusively debut new songs. Does it sound like Microsoft from the past?

One man, One company, One carrier would be our future

Is Google's Vic reading my blog? I wonder because this is exactly my case against Apple. Below is what Vic Gundotra of Google said recently when explaining why Google entered this market:

"If we did not act, we faced a draconian future where one man, one company, one carrier would be our future."

Why Apple's iPhone is Bad for Innovation

At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, talks about the dangers of closed devices, such as the iPhone, which cannot be easily modified by anyone except their vendor. Hit the link for the talk.

Apple iPad & Freedom from porn

In an email exchange between one of the gizmodo writers and Mr.Steve, the later opined that iPad provides freedom from porn or atleast trying to accomplish that. This is exactly one of the many things i have been bitching about lately. Why should Apple getting into this moral policing? I am perfectly capable of providing safe access to internet content on two of the laptops I have at home. I really want Apple to stick to building hardware & software that runs on it and let me worry about the rest.

It appears the moral policing is reaching new heights with the banning of violance and adult situations in mango comics
Welcome to the future where Mr.Steve Orweillian Jobs will decide what is acceptable and what is not for my kids. It wasn't enough for him to control what companies or individuals can use to write apps.

We ? Apple

I really like the Adobe campaign that tries to bring awareness on this issue and put a little pressure on Apple to change a bit. I am in no way saying Adobe is altruistic or has always done things right. It is just another company trying to protect their turf. But I agree with the message.

Apple has been digging its own hipster grave

Technology columnist Christopher Null writes here on how Apple is becoming uncool and has been digging its own grave lately. I couldn't agree more.

Excerpts from his article

But there's no doubting that Apple has been spending the last several months digging its own hipster grave as it becomes an angry sourpuss of a company that many have started comparing to Microsoft, something that was unthinkable only a few years ago.
And Apple may actually be even worse than Redmond. Consider the Gestapo tactics of firing overly chatty employees and, in perhaps the dumbest move from the company ever, sending a team of cops to break down the door of a Gizmodo blogger and seize his computers, all over a misplaced cell phone. Apple prizes its secrecy — a tactic that has been incredibly successful at building buzz and placing free media stories for years — but now that secrecy has turned mean-spirited, the business equivalent of the old man yelling at kids to get out of his yard. (If you don't believe me, check out some of the replies that Steve Jobs sends when people email him.)

revMobile: Why you shouldn't bet on Apple

Story: revMobile and Apple's new iPhone SDK Agreement

Yes this is yet another story of how Apple can can make your business irrelevant and waste all the time, energy & resources you put into develop your idea and be successful. What guarantee does your business have in the Apple ecosystem that surely guarantees success? If you spend an hour of your time on the web, it is full of examples of additional hurdles you would face.

As much as I hate Apple's policies & policing, I wish good luck to revMobile team on an outcome that rewards their effort.

U.S. Anti-Trust Cops Investigating Apple

It is fantastic news. I really welcome it and I hope something good comes out it unlike the earlier FCC investigation into Google Voice rejection investigation. I really hope this defines some boundary that does not hinder innovation but levels the playing field.

On the contrary, Apple pays its lawyers extremely well and so I just expect this to fade in to the dark and nothing would change.