“Expectations that Apple should open up its software to let other devices use it are unreasonable. Yes, in a perfect world of perfect interoperability, all devices should play nice with each other. But we don’t live in that world and most of the technology companies I know of don’t either,” Salkever writes. “So why should Apple?”
“As reports filtered out over the internet that Apple had blocked Palm Pre owners from synching to iTunes, howls of outrage filled the blogosphere. Pre owners screamed bloody murder. The free information crowd went crazy. “Apple’s iPhone and iPod Monopolies Must Go!” thundered one headline,” Salkever writes. “It was as if there were no other options to Apple in music-playing and smartphones.”
Salkever writes, “Naturally, no one seemed to be protesting that iPhone owners couldn’t synch their devices with Windows-based music-playing devices or that Pre owners couldn’t synch their devices with Blackberry software systems.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin P.” for the heads up.]
