Re:Bravo, Apple
by raganwald on Sunday April 11, 2010 @05:43PM
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"There is no room in this factory for levity, no matter how weak." --I Love Lucy, 1952.
I'm up for satire, but to qualify for my admiration, I'm looking for the satire to address both the action and the motivation of the party being skewered.
In this case, making fun of the "no other languages" clause is totally fair game, but by characterizing it as an attempt to weed out wimpy developers it is attacking a straw man instead of addressing Apple's desire to defend control of their own platform against encroachment by Adobe and others.
I'm up for satire, but to qualify for my admiration, I'm looking for the satire to address both the action and the motivation of the party being skewered.
In this case, making fun of the "no other languages" clause is totally fair game, but by characterizing it as an attempt to weed out wimpy developers it is attacking a straw man instead of addressing Apple's desire to defend control of their own platform against encroachment by Adobe and others.