Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy

Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by Tichy on Monday April 12, 2010 @03:41PM (#1260135)

No, what I mean is that the comparison of DHH and Apple falls flat. While DHH doesn't implement every feature he is requested to implement, everybody can just clone Rails and implement all features they desire (or pay people to do so).

You can't just clone the iPhone and it's OS.

Therefore I don't understand the claim that DHHs comments are hypocritical.

And nobody is disputing that Apple is entitled to do with their iPhone whatever they want. They are just not entitled to people being happy about it.

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Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by MWinther on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:11PM (#1260398)

I'd say that for most people, cloning Rails isn't an option if the devs won't put it in there. Having access to code is the same thing as being able to implement new stuff in the product for a relatively small amount of users or even developers, either due to knowledge or time.

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Re:Five rational arguments against Apple's 3.3.1 policy by ars on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:03PM (#1260371)

In other words, he is not preventing you from doing something - he just won't do it himself.

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