Sunday, June 29, 2003

Apple and Developers. I had some heated mail from a prominent Mac developer after my Apple as Innovator piece. His point: it's the developer ecosystem that matters, not Apple alone, and Apple has a terrible history of competing with their developers. Let's discuss. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 7:36:49 PM     Two years ago today a survey asked if Microsoft adds features to their operating system in order to eliminate competition. Eighty-nine percent said yes. Note that all this is about Microsoft because for the last thirteen years they've dominated the software industry (since Windows 3.0 shipped and pushed IBM aside). Before that IBM and within their own sphere, Apple, did exactly the same. When they didn't want to be competed with they just crushed the competition. That's why power in the software industry must be controlled. The most effective controllers of power are the users, but for whatever reason, they never seem to take that power seriously. I've never seen it happen where they said "We're going to help this struggling company because we want choice in the future." I guess that's not the nature of being a user. [Scripting News] 7:34:54 PM

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