A couple days ago John's Blog added an entry about Apple and the recent software update addition. It has people up in arms.
Their worries? The fact that Apple was kind of underhanded in the way they were trying to get users to start using Safari as their browser. But can you really blame them? They were just leveraging their domination in one area of the desktop to try to get into another vertical. Any company worth their salt will try things like this. Although I do think they should have been more upfront about it and not try to sneak it in as a software update to iTunes. A splash dialog maybe?!?!?
More important is what all this signals. It seems that this is just the latest salvo in the war that Apple is waging on Internet user with the ultimate goal of dominating the Internet. Other shots included the iPhone itself, only being able to develop web apps on the iPhone(at least initially), no Flash, and Safari's move to Windows, among others.
But why? Because they want developers to think of the Mac/iPhone platform first when building the next killer web app. Initially only allowing developers to develop web apps on the iPhone was specifically designed to encourage this. When the next must have web app runs best using a mac or iPhone, people will be encouraged to buy those products. Think monopoly. This may not be all bad because Apple does build awesome products, but diversity is the Spice of life.
Let's just hope they don't try to develop their own Flash like platform or start encouraging developers to put "Best Viewed in iPhone" tags at the bottom of pages. Hehe.
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