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[News] Apple Finally Learns That Choice is Good

Steve Jobs' Endangered Second Act

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| Unfortunately, it appears that Steve Jobs learned the wrong lessons the first 
| time around, and is fighting the last war rather than the next one.  Apple 
| failed in the early 1980s in large part because the IBM PC platform provided 
| what at the time was a remarkably open platform for ISVs, as well as an 
| ever-growing potential customer market as more and more personal computer 
| buyers flocked to the "WinTel" platform instead of Tandy, Commodore - or  
| Apple.       
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080307054430261

They now make the platform available to other phones (not carriers, yet). After
pressure, they also opened the iPhone to some development.


Related:

Game makers hit out at Apple

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| The current rate of game development requires a serious game user to upgrade 
| graphics cards once a year and run two graphics cards in the same machine. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| The thing is that Apple's target market are the same age group that play 
| games. It is killing this market just because it does not want people 
| installing graphics cards that are not blessed by the sainted Steve Jobs  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/11/game-makers-hit-apple


Report: Apple threatens shops selling iPhone in Singapore

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| Apple recently threatened retailers in a Singapore mall with legal action if 
| they continue to sell unlocked iPhones, prompting many to stop selling the 
| handsets, The Straits Times newspaper reported Friday.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071207/tc_infoworld/93891


Note to Apple: Stop thinking Like a Phone Company

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| But Steve Jobs might be better served here to take his own advice and think 
| different.  Because, as he has so elegantly demonstrated with the iPhone, 
| these devices are finally becoming little computers.  So it shouldn’t be a 
| surprise that consumers will expect them to act like computers.  They will 
| want to modify them to their exact, quirky predilections.  They will want to 
| use them any way they want, as a general-purpose device.     
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/28/note-to-apple-stop-thinking-like-a-phone-company/


Apple starts killing unlocked Iphones

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| Earlier this week, the company announced it was issuing a software patch to 
| disable phones owned by people with the temerity to want to choose which 
| network they wanted to use, saying that the update would leave the phones 
| permanently inoperable.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/28/apple-starts-killing-unlocked


Class action over carrier-locked iPhone 

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| Apple is being sued by another iPhone customer, this time over the inability 
| to use the phone with carriers other than AT&T, and high international 
| roaming  charges. 
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14206&Itemid=1054

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