Apple Stays Closed As iOS Shuts The Door On Developers

TheKid7 · Jun 11, 2013

Apple Stays Closed As iOS Shuts The Door On Developers:

Apple demonstrated that it will keep its iron grip on iOS 7, despite Tim Cook saying it’s time for Apple to start opening up. Rather than debut new opportunities for developers, Apple squelched them at WWDC by building its own substitutes for widgets, phone modifications, and whole categories of existing apps.

Long ago, Apple declared war on inconsistency. When critics say ‘closed’, Apple hears dependable. Buy an iPhone or MacBook Pro and Apple wants your experience to be reliably great. It will do what it takes to protect that reputation. That means keeping its software largely unaltered by third-party developers. Apple’s homemade apps and operating system infrastructure might not be the best, especially compared to Google’s, but they’re easy and simple and usually get the job done.

Hardcore users and third-party developers are the casualties of this war. And WWDC was a battle lost for them. Considering it’s supposed to be a developers conference, Monday’s event was all about Apple. So much so it may have left a sinking feeling in the stomachs of those hopeful to build helpful experiences for users…as well as those who already had...........
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/critics-say-closed-apple-hears-dependable/

Masterblaster · Jun 12, 2013

Well, being a long time PC/Windows user, I would agree with Apples plan to keep it's OS closed.
Microsoft's whole plan with Windows was to make all applications similar to reduce the learning curve. Right out of the oven, the software developers started customizing their software making them unique. Today there is very little commonality between Windows applications.
Maybe Apple will be more successful.

Victek · Jun 12, 2013

Masterblaster said:

Well, being a long time PC/Windows user, I would agree with Apples plan to keep it's OS closed.
Microsoft's whole plan with Windows was to make all applications similar to reduce the learning curve. Right out of the oven, the software developers started customizing their software making them unique. Today there is very little commonality between Windows applications.
Maybe Apple will be more successful.
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As usual there are upsides and downsides. The price users pay for Apples' "consistency" is literally a lot more money. I much prefer the more affordable and flexible Windows and Android OSs.

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