It seems the “in thing” to do lately is bash Apple for non-existent threats to freedom that the company is supposedly perpetrating. People from left and right across the web are taking minor issues and blowing them out of all proportion to create this false sense of “outrage” against some perceived threat from the cupertino company. It seems the politics of “phoney outrage” has become so prevalent in the world of political discourse that it’s seeping into the mindset of everyone with an axe to grind. Here’s just two examples that popped up in my RSS inbox today. The first is from Slate magazine warning magazine publishers of the threat of doing business with Apple or supporting their products. As usual, the argument transcends technical or even computer issues and becomes one about freedom. Here’s some of his comments:
They’re claustrophobic walled gardens within Apple’s walled garden, lacking the basic functionality we now expect with electronic journalism: the opportunity to comment, the integration of social media, the ability to select text and paste it elsewhere, and finally the most basic function of all: links to other sources.
The technical issues he raises have absolutely nothing to do with the App store or its controlled environment, and are frankly completely false. It’s just that some of the existing Apps might have been designed that way, but there’s absolutely nothing in Apple’s App store rules preventing any of this. He goes on to say this….
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