[DM-MUG] Is anyone else concerned about the renaming of iPhoneOS to iOS?

[Bryan Baker]

I agree w/ Bill on this.

Mac OSX is currently the only development environment for iOS devices,  
they need some fully usable environment to create apps with, so if for  
no other reason Mac OS X will not go away.

Will it get the full throttle full tilt boogie firehose of Apple  
developer attention any more: no that ship has sailed.

Mac OSX is pretty mature, and much of the wow - I need that - user  
facing feature fruit has been picked. iOS is the star now, but the Mac  
is still where the developers have to live.

And if there's a dev environment hosted on OSX then there will be  
whatever apps it can produce.

On Jun 22, 2010, at 4:12 PM, Bill Davis wrote:
> 1. The next rev of Mac OS X will NOT be iOS. Put it out of your mind.
> Apple us not that stupid.
>
> Though I wouldn't mind seeing an AppStore on Mac OS X too as long as
> it was not the only source of apps in that case. Apple would never do
> that though, they know they'd be lynched if they tried.
>
> 2. It is not Apple that will put restrictions on eBooks, it is the
> publisher. This has been true for years. Just like music.
>
> You can load unprotected ePub-format ebooks from those publishers that
> do not use DRM such as Baen Books into iBooks via iTunes on your
> computer, from what I hear (have not tried it yet).
>
> I don't think there is a way to load 3rd party ebooks  "over the air"
> into iBooks like you can do with other readers  but I just got my iPad
> yesterday so I am not sure of that.  Oh well, Stanza WILL do over-the-
> air loads in several ways, so it's not like there aren't alternatives.
>
> Be glad iBooks supports ePub rather than Yet Another Proprietary
> Format, too! Be nice if it supported other formats, it's not
> impossible since they added PDF support in iBooks 1.1.  But it may not
> really be necessary and might even be counterproductive. We don't need
> more ebook formats we need fewer; one or two if possible.
>
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>
> On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:59 AM, John Eller <wmbrainiac at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> All legitimate concerns.
>> I want to know if any restrictions will be placed on what "iBooks"
>> are offered for sale.
>> If that happens - at all - Apple will indeed have become the evil
>> empire and I'll have to find another place to dump an average of
>> $1,000 every single year on technology.
>> I hope they can reign in this impulse to expand absolute control in
>> content and software.  Compromises are needed.
>>
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Brandon Carlson wrote:
>>
>> Since the introduction of the iPad I've had a concern. That concern
>> is that the next rev of OSX is iPhoneOS. Are these platforms
>> converging? I don't think it's much of a stretch to envision an iMac
>> with touch capability.
>>
>> Why do I have a concern? I don't like Apple projecting their moral
>> compass onto my machine. The best and worst part of iOS in my
>> opinion is the App Store. The ease of download and installation of
>> the apps is great, yet the numerous whacky app rejections and
>> revocations due to "Too much bandwidth used" or "Inappropriate
>> content" have lead me to fear the day that my desktop and notebook
>> now require all software be delivered through the App Store and my
>> software choice is restricted to the whims of some arbitrary  
>> reviewer.
>>
>> In addition to the reviewer's whims, what about software and content
>> developers? With the recent changes to the Software Developer
>> Agreement Apple is now regulating what technology you can use to
>> develop applications as well as shutting out access to mobile
>> advertisers other than those that use the new iAd technology. What
>> was the perfect mix of form and function (Mac + OSX) is now becoming
>> an even more closed system in pursuit of more money (I really meant
>> a better user experience of course).
>>
>> Pray that I don't have to switch to Ubuntu...
>>
>> Brandon _______________________________________________

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