Coyote Tracks:
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Of course, the web was abuzz a day later—in subdued fashion—with ComiXology’s admission that, actually, they just didn’t submit Saga #12 to Apple because they interpreted Apple’s rules as prohibiting it. When they actually asked Apple, turns out they didn’t have a problem with it after all.
I’m curious how widespread the second report is compared to the first; my suspicion is that it hasn’t traveled as far, for much the same reason that ComiXology made the mistake in the first place. “Apple is Big Brother” has become a default narrative about the company. Apple stands for closed systems, proprietary everything, and a level of control over the way their customers use their products that would send us all fleeing for the hills if we had any common sense.
At first glance this is a baffling take. If there’s something I could do with OS X 10.6 that I can’t do with OS X 10.8, I haven’t found it yet. … While iOS is locked down by comparison—and there are some things that definitely do need to be opened up with respect to inter-application communication—an iOS device is an application console. We don’t complain (much) about a PlayStation 3 being “locked down” because it’s a game console. That’s what they do.
Yet it’s a take even long-time Apple users fall into. …
via DF
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