will shipley's essay über apple geschlossene platform strategie

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will shipley (delicious monster, u.a. verantwortlich für den apple award gewinner "delicious library") äußert sich in seinem blog über den hang apples immer mehr auf geschlossene plattformen zu setzen.

The core of Apple users has supported Apple for years -- we were there when Apple was hurting, we stuck with it, we nursed her back to health. It's our money she has now, and she's turning on us now that she's rich off it.

There are some third parties making money from the iPod -- hardware accessory makers. But even then, Apple is trying to charge them a "Made for iPod" sticker tax... for adding no value. And since Apple controls the stores in which iPods are sold, they have a pretty effective stick to use against those who don't comply - you won't be where the players are. But with the latest iPods Apple's gone a step further, and disabled some docking stations that don't have a special chip in them provided by Apple; forcing customers to use only Apple-approved accessories. Apple's emulating the most pernicious qualities of Nintendo and the Microsoft XBox -- you pay us a tax or you don't work with our systems.

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2007/09/iphone-ipod-contain-or-disengage.html

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