If Apple is really successful, it’s likely that other companies will be more emboldened to forsake openness as well. The catch is that customers won’t accept the sudden closing of a previously open platform, that’s one of the reasons Palladium failed. But Apple has shown that users will accept most anything in an entirely new platform as long as it offers users the experience they want.
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And in any case, having a HTML5-powered Safari on there makes it actually quite an open platform. Yehuda Katz puts it in better words: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/27/the-irony-of-the- ipad-a-great-day-for-open-technologies/
Jörn Zaefferer - 28th January 2010 10:59 - #
It’s amazing, isn’t it? Turns out that what most people want is photos, music and the web, and they’re happy to trade in the freedom to write their own BIOS to get it.
People are weird.