Poll: Do You Have A Problem With This Statement

Re:Poll: Do You Have A Problem With This Statement by radu_floricica on Sunday August 09, 2009 @07:48AM (#750670)

I voted Yes, I'd have a problem with this. Sounds like a common sense idea, but the implementation would be horrific. How exactly do you set the standards for this? You can't make a law especially for Apple, so you have to legislate ... what exactly?

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Re:Poll: Do You Have A Problem With This Statement by TomOfTTB on Sunday August 09, 2009 @07:57AM (#750679)

I'm not sure I see why this would be hard. I'd say the law could look something like this...

"Companies who create computing environments that are not open to all applications must clearly define the acceptance criteria for developers wishing to create applications for those environments"

I guess there will always be some ambiguity (What's "clearly " for example) but anything is an improvement over what we have now.

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Re:Poll: Do You Have A Problem With This Statement by danek on Monday August 10, 2009 @04:02AM (#752193)

How about a criteria that says "we will not accept applications that are crap or that make us look bad or dilute the pool of good applications"? Because this seems like it's what Apple is doing. Now whether they are doing their filtering well is a different matter.

I don't see why government needs to be brought into this. Do we really need a "computing platform fairness czar"?

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