Apple Literally Stole my Thunder
It always makes me sigh when I read stories like this.<p>For decades Microsoft was bashed for offering up a <i>closed system</i>, yet the reality was Microsoft would let you sell any type of software for Windows and they couldn't care less.<p>Then along comes Apple with it's tightly closed, highly controlled platform and no one raises a murmur, but rather everyone seems to celebrate the idea.<p>Watching on are the rest of the big players and they see how successful Apple has been, so they all start madly creating their own closed systems.<p>The reality is none of these issues existed in the old style Windows system, but thanks to the success of Apple, those days are now gone :(<p>Developers are now forever beholden to the big corporates.