June 25th
iHaters gonna iHate
“This week the engineers at Google remotely activated the so-called Android “kill switch,” a technology which allows the company to remotely remove applications installed on users’ phones.”
What’s this? An “open” app store that can remotely wipe apps from your phone? Yet more evidence that an open marketplace isn’t much different than Apple’s App Store, besides lacking a middleman to vet the quality of submitted applications.
I know it’s the cool thing to hate on Apple these days, but the fact is since the iPhone launched, not much has changed — except that people can actually develop apps for it now! Remember 2007? If you wanted to develop a Windows Mobile app, it was very difficult, if not impossible. Apple made it easy to develop mobile applications for its devices and eventually changed the entire mobile landscape.
But will these haters berate Amazon for being closed by only allowing its Kindle users to buy books from Amazon? Of course they won’t; the Kindle is an amazing device and Amazon has a massive collection of books for it.
The launch of the iPhone 4 shouldn’t suddenly be the reason why people hate Apple. A better screen and another camera hasn’t changed the fact that the App Store has been a walled garden (walled gardens are pretty), and will continue to be.
