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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by flyinRyan on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @04:13AM (#4099397)
>It's clear that Apple considers the relative openness of Macs a defect which they're only keeping around for backwards compatibility.

This is not remotely clear. Do you really think Apple wants the App store to dry up because they are the only people left who can develop for it? The Apps make the app store and they know this.

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by jerf on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:14PM (#4101148)
False dilemma; that is not the other alternative. The other alternative is that only a certain set of people bother to purchase the license to create apps, mostly for professional reasons, and plenty of apps are still created. But not by curious teenagers who want to learn about how things work.
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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by flyinRyan on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @07:19AM (#4105315)
How will anyone create apps if the openness of macs is removed and they turn into big iOS machines?
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