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.
So it’ll be good when I want to come to Europe and use Yen to pay for things? The Euro is proprietary.
@praus
Easy solution. Stop selling products in the EU. Lets see how long they keep singing the same tune.
I agree wholeheartedly. MS wouldn’t/couldn’t take that bet, but Steve Jobs may well be the guy who plays that hand. It would be fun to see the EU Commission be forced to fold or double-down.
The EU is so full of shit, it’s coming out of their ears.
@Hm…
I think you’re underestimating the drive to accrue profits, even in SOHO-type businesses. If a single developer can double his potential customer-base at the expense of neglecting some OS-specific niceties (and assuming the learning curve is acceptably short), that’s extremely tempting.
Let’s be honest: the drive to produce a high-quality product seldom defeats the drive to save or make money. Apple knows this, and is doing all it can to counter-act and/or prevent it.
As for competition improving quality: I’d argue it only improves quality to the degree it’ll be noticed by the average consumer—and the average consumer is usually not so well informed. Apple is educating people right now, bringing high-quality products to the masses, and slowly but surely, tipping the balance in favour of quality over savings.
I convinced one of my ex-girlfriends to spend £80 on a pair of boots once. She’d never spent that much before, but afterwards couldn’t help raving about the comfort, and how much better they felt on her feet—she was just plain unaware of how good a decent pair of shoes can be. I think that applies generally.
“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.”
When crappy apps allow malware, viruses and the like, send Ms. Kroes and the EU the bill!
Maybe now Liberal Numbnuts know what it is meant when it is said…
“Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!”
‘Get Apple out of the EU and the EU can stay out of Apple!’
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Lemme guess: [redacted] = eat shit
Just a shot in the dark, there
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I live in Sweden whichnis on the EU but this is just stuupid. They are meddling in our lifes too much, see problems where there are none, creating stoopid laws and regulations and we didn’t even ellect these shitheads.
This will hurt the industry and every one in it and make it worse for consumers.
It will end up like this stoopid thing they had in Korea that all phones had to run so programs would work on all phones. It stifeled competition and innovation and now it’s dead.
EU does allot of god thing but this is really STOOPID!
@goddess
“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.”
And @BJH
“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…”
I call bullocks. Links please, or it didn’t happen.
This just sounds like so much bunk.
If Apple were willing to take a gamble and wager a bet, they’d (the EU) would change they law in quick order. Just pull all Apple products out of the EU.
But I – a customer – want customer lock in to proprietary technology. That’s why I love and always buy Apple. Is she daft?
@ SiR G.
I tend to agree with you—one can never underestimate the Walmart mentality in the US. It just amuses me that the “free-market cures all” proselytizers like MDN believe they need Apple’s protection in this case, but would cry foul if Microsoft or anyone locks Apple out with a similar arrangement.
@ bjh
I don’t argue that wood isn’t a better surface—when properly cleaned—but that it’s a myth that the EU was trying to ban wooden butcher blocks. You should also note that BBC retracted the story about eggs. If you read the actual text of the proposed EU regulation, you’ll see it calls for listing contents by volume or mass, and does absolutely nothing to restrict the number.
@ goddess
Oh, Omniscient One, you may need some glasses: A dozen eggs would just carry one little “xx kg” to be compliant and standard cartons already have this info printed on them, even in the US. So your “huge cost” is a total of $0.00.
Neelie Kroes is obviously an uninformed idiot given her statement.
And
Given your statement Bob L your obviously an uninformed idiot too.
” Just pull all Apple products out of the EU.”
Thank the heavens your not running Apple “Bob L”.
How eloquently put Mr. X
Need an education much?
“the EU can just not have iPhones too, and stfu.”
You and Bob L should form a think tank together.
(just in case that went above your head, it means you are an idiot)
“Sounds like a problem for people who live in the EU, I for one could give a flying F.”
You are so right “Proud Puppy” because you are the centre of The Universe, aren’t you Proud Puppy. Isn’t little Proud Puppy the centre of The Universe, aren’t ya little guy, tiggleywiggly, tiggleywiggly… O No, you peed on your leg!
“Well, I say the next time Europe decides to have a war, we stay home!”
Please do.
Then again, who gives a shit what you say.
“Now they want to flood our iDevices with shoddy, EuroApps”
“Your” iDevices are made in China…
“just because their own developers can’t cut the mustard.”
Tell that to Bertrand Serlet and Jonathan Ive at Apple, will ya?
(Bertrand Serlet is Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Inc and Jonathan Ive is…. O I’m sure even you know who he is.)
“”To the Devil that prompts ’em their treasonous parles!” – Robert Browning.”
I take it all back, you read a song!
(by a European no less)
“Easy solution. Stop selling products in the EU. Lets see how long they keep singing the same tune.”
Lets see how long Apple shareholders keep singing the same tune when you do that CEO Praus of Apple Inc…
Ingenious. Stop selling to 500 million people in the EU.
(http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-QA-09-031/EN/KS-QA-09-031-EN.PDF)
It is incredible that you, X, Bob L and h2a even know how to turn on any Apple device.
The real MDN is back!
I am actually an advocate of the idea of interoperability. But governments have to come to grips with the fact that they cannot legislate everything into (their current view of) perfection. The end result tends to be the opposite, reflecting the inherent inconsistencies, narrow-mindedness, and corruption within the govenrments, themselves.
Electronista and MDN might’ve misunderstood the criticism, mainly because of the way America, almost alone in the world, conducts its mobile phone facilities. In Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, you buy a phone and choose your carrier. Only in the “land of the free” it seems, are you tied to one particular carrier.
I think the EU commissioner was probably alluding to that. And I think MDN’s attitude was uncharacteristically and unnecessarily caustic.
And I’m deeply depressed at the many remarks that dump on Europe. It’s a very sad day if these undisguised hateful remarks are typical of todays Americans. Makes me embarrassed to be an Apple supporter and a reader of MDN. I think these extreme comments go so far beyond what is fair and reasonable, they demand a formal response from MDN
@ James T
What wars did you win for us? Unless ya 80+ …
Think your RDF is skewed slightly. Since WWII your country has been the one starting wars, some of which us Europeans end up cleaning up.
That now said I agree that this if true would be crazy of the EU maybe this is why Jobs talked up open Web app development and open HTML 5
Neelie Kroes is the same one that went after Microsoft when the US was to lazy to handle this monopolist. Since Apple is going the same route nowadays, she is right to watch out for us consumers.
Go, Neelie, Go!
As evidenced by writings of former soviet intelligence agents, the EU government was created by communist forces to impose socialism upon Europe and the world.
The dumb European sheep population has no clue.