Apple's Mistake, By Paul Graham...
I just read a fantastic article by Paul Graham that outlines some of the reasons Apple is getting such bad press with developers lately. Interestingly, I posted a tweet a couple days ago about the irony of Apple's 1984 add (although admittedly from a different perspective). Here are a few of my favorite excerpts, but you can read the entire essay here.
...How would Apple like it if when they discovered a serious bug in OS X, instead of releasing a software update immediately, they had to submit their code to an intermediary who sat on it for a month and then rejected it because it contained an icon they didn't like?......I just bought a new 27" iMac a couple days ago. It's fabulous. The screen's too shiny, and the disk is surprisingly loud, but it's so beautiful that you can't make yourself care...So I bought it, but I bought it, for the first time, with misgivings...In the past when I bought things from Apple it was an unalloyed pleasure...This time it felt like a Faustian bargain. They make such great stuff, but they're such assholes......When you look at the famous 1984 ad now, it's easier to imagine Apple as the dictator on the screen than the woman with the hammer. In fact, if you read the dictator's speech it sounds uncannily like a prophecy of the App Store...
