Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The New Apple Walled Garden

Geeks and other enthusiasts lined up on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was perhaps lost on some as they , docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications.

I am referring to the new iPhone - and the new <A HREF="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/15/the-new-apple-walled-garden">Apple iPhone SDK</A> that allows developers to build 'native' applications. But when Microsoft introduced DRM into Media Player it was bad bad bad - and it wasn't even mandatory.

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