MacDailyNews Take: Oh, for the love of…
Electronista reports, “Apple largely provides access to the same programming interfaces as it uses for iOS devices, but it may have to make it easier for developers to write apps without using Xcode or requiring that all apps must be approved by Apple. In the US, Apple is already believed to be under FTC investigation for banning third-party development suites. Adobe and others have complained that the iOS SDK rules make it artificially difficult to develop for platforms like Android at the same time, forcing companies to spend extra for multi-platform work and often leading many to write only for iOS hardware.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple, along with every other company on earth that so desires, has every right to protect their platforms from lowest common denominator crapware that fails to take advantage of unique OS hooks. We don’t want generic ports excreted by lazy developers on our iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches and neither should the EU, its dingbat commissioner, the FTC, or any other government entity.
Is Ms. Kroes going to force Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), and Nintendo (Wii) to somehow live under her bullshit “new European interoperability rules,” too? No? Then [redacted] and go find something meaningful blather on about, honey.
@MDN that was the best take ever.
The level of critical analysis by MDN has taken a turn for the gutter
Ass dumb biatch. This is the EU using regulatory methods to compensate for the lack of innovation in their Unions ass lazy companies. The US government and that dumb ass Obama need to get the lead out of their ass and defend the company that is adding more to US taxes than most others.
the EU can just not have iPhones too, and stfu.
Ms. Kroes = Can’t Utilize Normal Thought! [removed]void(0);
It’s hard to fathom the utter stupidity of your average politician. Oh and MDN’s take is spot on (I’m looking at you, MR). Perhaps you should get out of the trailer park and come and live over here where we’ve had similarly ludicrous pronouncements such as all bananas sold not exceeding a certain degree of curvature.
He’ll, I love in country where our government wasn’t even elected by a majority of the voting population. The EU has a long and infamous reputation for corruption and stupidity. What a fscking bunch of tools!
=:~)
I believe that regulation of companies is typically a good thing, but this is NOT regulation. It’s insane. By her logic, wouldn’t this also deal with Mac OS vs Windows? Why haven’t we heard anything from her making Microsoft be more open? If her true concern were choice, she should be happy with the current level of options available to consumers.
Interoperability should relate to things like H264, MP3, GSM/CDMA. Not developer tools.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me why there is such fear of “generic ports excreted by lazy developers”? Wouldn’t free market dynamics take care of making those unprofitable and hasten their demise? Maybe we as users need protection from having to decide ourselves.
Sounds like a problem for people who live in the EU, I for one could give a flying F.
Decadent Europeans! We win their wars. We pay their bills. And still it’s not enough. Now they want to flood our iDevices with shoddy, EuroApps just because their own developers can’t cut the mustard. Dirty buggers. Well, I say the next time Europe decides to have a war, we stay home!
“To the Devil that prompts ’em their treasonous parles!” – Robert Browning.
@Hm…,
Your argument applies just as easily to oppressive govt. “oversight.”
It’s about time the populous united and told the govt. exactly where they can put it.
BRILLIANT take MDN!
I couldn’t have slammed these dolts better myself.
Why is this EU garbage happening? –> Sheer unmitigated TechTardiness! These people are ignorant of the hardware and software business. To use a metaphor: This is the BLIND leading the SIGHTED.
I see one huge laugh riot in our future…
The EU is out of control. They’re about to pass a law that no food can be sold by quantity, only weight. Eggs, doughnuts, etc. will have to be weighed. The cost is huge but, they go blindly ahead.
Apple should ignore the EU. If the bureaucrats won’t let apps be sold as is, then Apple should close access to the APP store for European customers. We can then see how those clowns in Brussels react to hundreds of thousands of frustrated customers.
Many folks outside the EU have no idea how undemocratic an institution it is, and how many idiotic laws and edicts they promulgate. One of the most recent is an attempt to ban the sale of eggs “by the dozen”. That’s right up there with the EU’s outlawing of wooden butcher blocks, whereby they forced butchers to use plastic countertops. Of course, those morons in Brussels had no idea that plastic is a superb breeding ground for bacteria, compared to wood.
Neelie Kroes is a champion campaigner for Open Source products. She was instrumental in the action against MS to unbundle IE and the fine the EU placed on MS.
Unfortunately she is not seemingly aware that Apple users prefer the locked in proprietary format that protects against malware and virus etc etc.
Frell that wench.
Really. She probably doesn’t know the difference between her arse and a hole in the ground.
Really. Politicians that think up bureaucratic bullshizzle in order to justify their jobs need shot. And in any case. She is an EU rep. Individual nations aren’t complaining so why should she…
OK. I’m going to quit before I get censored. I really TOTTEMO OKOTTA YO!!
CHIKUSHO!!
~~VISION~~of~the~future~~
Choose from column A or column B:
A:
Innovative technology companies, such as Apple, who rightfully choose to protect and control their software base, withhold their products from the EU and tell their TechTard politicians to get bent.
B:
The EU stamps their little feet long and hard enough that they get their way. The result is rampant MALWARE and CRAPWARE that is compatible with and exploits every single phone in the EU. Their mobile phone system comes to a crashing halt. The citizens of the EU stage a revolution and overthrow the EU government. ‘Dogs and cats, living together — mass hysteria!’
All any of these EU PoliTards need to do was read a history book about computer software to recognize their stooopidity. What’s going to be worse? Them getting their way, or the long court battles to WAKE them THE F*CK UP?!
@ Luke
I wasn’t arguing *for* oversight; just consistency. I wonder why MDN, normally a “free market takes care of itself” viewpoint, isn’t opposed to Apple restricting the development platform used. “Lazy developers” can code just as badly with Apple’s XCode (which is a really nice IDE!) as with Adobe’s (crappy) Flash and Air systems. The market would quickly sort the apps.
Imagine this happening in ANY other business sector. “Hey! You can no longer just have your own products in your Mercedes Store.” or “Hey Mountain Equipment – you can no longer choose to sell a limited range of quality products – you have to sell any kind of cheap knockoff dangerous rubbish anyone wants to put in your store.” Ridiculous!
Hey EU, a central point about the whole Microsoft thing was their unfair leveraging of a monopoly. When people have a vast range of products to choose from, the whole game changes. Vast numbers of companies have (and must have) “walled gardens” — it’s what allows their product to work effectively.
And “interoperable” means being able to communicate with, in various ways – which, of course, the iPhone does. It goes NOT mean allow incompetents and criminals access to the core functionality and brand experience of the iPhone.
@ bjh
Could you give a source for the “butcher block outlawing” or “attempt to ban the sale of eggs ‘by the dozen'”?
It seems that none of my European friends had ever heard of it—except the ones who read The Daily Mail, a tabloid on par with the National Enquirer. Both of these are typical “Euromyths” that somehow live in the internets tubes in out-of-the-way clogs.
Evey few months there is some sort of scare story about some daft EU “law” insisting on straight bananas or whatever. Every time it turns out to be bollocks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10461548.stm
was just a matter of time. But US companies who aided the EU vs Microsoft brought this on. I’m looking at you Google.
Email the lady and tell her hands off our Apple.
Maybe she doesnt realise this company has a fan base like no other. Tell her where to get off at:
Cab-Kroes-NK@ec.europa.eu
Easy solution. Stop selling products in the EU. Lets see how long they keep singing the same tune.
@Hm…
Regarding butcher blocks – see the wikipedia entry on wood countertops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countertop#cite_note-1
The scare concerning the sale of eggs “by the dozen” was covered by the BBC.
Note I see that since I read the story on Monday there has been clarification or backtracking (your choice) by the EU.
Nevertheless, your “European friends” appear not to be particularly well-informed, at least those who don’t read ‘The Daily Mail’.