Apple's walled garden


	Apple's walled garden

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13ebcc8b-bc1f-4468-b1b8-8e8e150a37ef/C7DFF9DE-99D8-4627-83CC-A4BF1284C72D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/15/the-new-apple-walled-garden/" href="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/15/the-new-apple-walled-garden/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunchit.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/15/the-new-apple-walled-garden/"><P>Geeks and enthusiasts wearing <A href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</A> t-shirts, using laptops covered in <A href="http://dataportability.org">Data Portability</A>, <A href="http://microformats.org">Microformats</A> and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications wrapped in DRM. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/15/the-new-apple-walled-garden/"><P>I am referring to the new iPhone - and the new Apple iPhone SDK that allows developers to build ‘native’ applications. The announcement was greeted with a <A href="http://www.techmeme.com/080306/p83#a080306p83">web-wide standing ovation</A>, especially from the developer community. The same community who demand all from Microsoft, feel gifted and special when Apple give them an inch of rope. When Microsoft introduced DRM into Media Player it was <A href="http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/09/21/microsoft-media-player-shreds-your-rights">bad</A> <A href="http://www.aarongifford.com/article65.html">bad</A> <A href="http://p2pnet.net/story/12324">bad</A> - and it wasn’t even mandatory, it simply allowed content owners a way to distribute and sell content from anywhere. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C7DFF9DE-99D8-4627-83CC-A4BF1284C72D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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