A Car Too Far » Droid http://www.acartoofar.co.uk Ordinary Actions = Ordinary Results Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:35:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The backlash rises… http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/general-chat/the-backlash-rises/ http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/general-chat/the-backlash-rises/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:51:13 +0000 Matt http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/?p=274 [...]]]> It can’t have been very long ago that I started predicting the backlash against Apple but it appears to be gathering pace at an alarming rate. It seems that any company that gets big… gets hated. M$, Google, BP, McDonalds… you name it, they ended up being hated. Why? Well I’m not sure whether you could quantify whether it’s BECAUSE they are big, or because once they get big, strange things start to happen. Either way, Apple, who have become considerably more restrcitive that Microsoft, have started to enrage the people who have given them the power. The iPhone  was a hit not so much because of the great stuff it offered out of the box… but because of the great stuff that developers made for it. Now Apple have been handcuffing the iPhone developers, expect to see many more of them flocking over to Android.

All that aside, this post (from an Adobeite) points out exactly why. (hint… it’s in the iPhone ADG and looks like this:)

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

]]> http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/general-chat/the-backlash-rises/feed/ 0 iDon’t need to argue http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/general-chat/idont-need-to-argue/ http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/general-chat/idont-need-to-argue/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:18:55 +0000 Matt http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/?p=200 [...]]]> As is often sometimes the case, I miss something that happens on the old interweb and in this instance, I’ve been behind the curve on the battle between the iPhone and Droid.  It started in anger when the Droid camp released the following baiting video…

Which appears to have been deftly batted back by the iPhone camp…

Which ever way you look at it, it’s given us something good…. a beautiful song from (the aptely named) Mozella called Magic (Oh Oh Oh)

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