Tim Bray on the iPhone vision

Tim Bray on the iPhone vision: "XML co-inventor Tim Bray, on leaving Sun to be Google's Android developer advocate: 'The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.

I hate it.

I hate it even though the iPhone hardware and software are great, because freedom's not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient.' Amen, Tim.




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