This authoritarianism has become unavoidable after it emerged that Apple is insisting that publishers who allow users to buy content that can be delivered to iPhone/iPad apps - like Amazon Kindle books or magazine subscriptions - will be forced to allow them to buy the same content within the application and pay 30 per cent of the revenue to Apple.
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My concerns grew when the App Store for portable devices launched with unpublished, restrictive and arbitrarily enforced rules on which apps could be offered, rules that seemed to combine the worst US-style prudishness with a desire on the part of Apple to restrict access to anything that might compete with its own software or reduce its control of users in any way. The iPod and its descendants troubled me because they were a closed, controlled and carefully managed platform, and even without the FairPlay digital rights management system, Apple has spent a great deal of time and effort making the iPod product range as closed and un-interoperable as possible, to the extent that I had to buy a copy of a program called Senuti in order to copy legally-acquired music from an iPod that I owned because Apple refuses to make such copying part of iTunes. Being able to do it on machines of transcendent beauty like the MacBook Air - on which I’m currently working - was sufficient compensation.
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I could live with a one-button mouse and a limited range of expensive but beautiful hardware platforms because Mac OS allowed me to connect to the internet and install whatever software I liked, even if I had to write it myself. It is becoming harder and harder to feel comfortable about the business practices of Apple as it continues its transformation from being a design-obsessed computer company into the authoritarian centrepiece of the digital life of the millions of people who have chosen ‘the Apple Way’.Īs a long time Apple user myself, and someone who has introduced many friends and family to Macintosh computers, iPods, iPhones, iPads and the iTunes Store over the years I am beginning to feel like a left-wing writer who, having always spoken up in favour of the Soviet Union, wakes up one morning to find Russian tanks in the streets of Budapest, crushing the nascent Hungarian democracy.Īpple has always exerted rigid control over its products, and this brought many benefits when it only spread as far as the hardware platform, the operating system and Apple-developed software. Welcome to the Brave New World of the Macintosh App Store, where Big Brother Steve is in complete control. Retrieved 10 January 2015.Apple should be part of the open online society, rather than the architects behind a system of control, argues Bill Thompson ^ "Freedom: a Mac app that gives you up to three hours of internetlessness - Hacker News".^ "Freedom: Stop yourself from doing unproductive things : ".^ "Engadget - Technology News, Advice and Features"."Freedom Temporarily Unplugs You From Online Distractions".
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^ "Computer Program Wants to Free Scholars From Computer Distractions – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education".CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) "Freedom - Windows and Mac Internet Blocking Software".
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