With Apple's recent change of iPhone OS licensing terms (new in V4), client middleware is history. All they have done is galvanized the 2nd generation of developers to focus on Android. Apple is determined to stay at 10% market share at whatever they do. Add phones and book readers to the list. In 2 years Android will take over.<br>
<br>That is, assuming anybody in that pack of 50 device manufacturers for Android can make a decent f-ing phone. It's a big IF but I think it's going to happen.<br><br>Too bad. My honeymoon with Apple has been too short. I was finally able to make my house 100% PC-free less than a year ago - I have four macs and two iPhones in the family now. It was like the sun finally came out after a decade of gloom. Too bad it didn't last long... but at least the sex was great.<br>
<br>Tony<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Joe D Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joedwil@earthlink.net">joedwil@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
HI len,<br>
would it make you happy if they did html5 <video> and <audio> elements that played at least what most X3D players would do? And a reliable object/embed element that can work with a clean registration process and a consistent real time connection with the host DOM?<br>
And even a sandbox/no sandbox iframe element?<br>
Right now X3DOM is working fairly well right under their nose, like in the other browsers and really, soon IE will be better.Thanks and Best Regards,<br>
Joe<br>
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Subject: Re: [X3D-Public]Everybody’s Business - How Apple Has Rethought a Gospel of the Web - NYTimes.com<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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The politics of technology marketing are shaping themselves to the American<br>
zeitgeist of increasing insularity and local control to enable tightly focused<br>
expansion of market domination. The closed garden is very familiar territory.<br>
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As long as the consumer can be distracted, something the West Coast marketing machines now excel at, yes, Apple can go on doing what they are doing with few consequences except other experienced competitors finding ways to use Apple's own contract language to keep them out of any open development initiatives.<br>
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Slow strangulation of Apple is becoming a possibility. THAT won't be an open process. Apple will react in their usual insular way: "what's ours is ours and what's left in the open is ours too".<br>
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Apple: The Ultimate Free Rider.<br>
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len<br>
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Quoting "Don Brutzman" <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a>>:<br>
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Interesting article regarding economic success on the Web<br>
via closed platforms. Excerpts below.<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/technology/internet/11every.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/technology/internet/11every.htm</a><br>
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April 9, 2010<br>
Rethinking a Gospel of the Web<br>
By STEVEN JOHNSON<br>
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FOR about a decade now, ever since it became clear that the jungle of the World Wide Web would triumph over the walled gardens of CompuServe, AOL and MSN, a general consensus has solidified among the otherwise fractious population of People Who Think Big Thoughts About the Internet.<br>
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That unifying creed is this: Open platforms promote innovation and diversity more effectively than proprietary ones.<br>
[...]<br>
Over the last two years, however, that story has grown far more complicated, thanks to the runaway success of the iPhone (and now iPad) developers platform — known as the App Store to consumers.<br>
[...]<br>
Those of us who have championed open platforms cannot ignore these facts. It’s conceivable that, had Apple loosened the restrictions surrounding the App Store, the iPhone ecosystem would have been even more innovative, even more democratic. But I suspect that this view is too simplistic. The more complicated reality is that the closed architecture of the iPhone platform has contributed to its generativity in important ways.<br>
[...]<br>
None of which is to suggest that the iPhone/iPad ecosystem couldn’t benefit from<br>
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a little more openness. Apple should stop blocking apps that compete with the iPhone’s default apps — e-mail clients, for instance — as this is the one area where innovation has truly suffered.<br>
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Of course, innovation and democratization are not the only reasons to champion open platforms. Given the current size of the iPhone’s installed base, as well as the projections for the iPad’s adoption, it is troubling that one company can single-handedly veto any new application on a whim.<br>
[...]<br>
But whatever Apple chooses to do with its platform in the coming years, it has<br>
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made one thing clear: sometimes, if you get the conditions right, a walled garden can turn into a rain forest.<br>
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Steven Johnson is an author and entrepreneur. His new book, “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation,” will be published in October.<br>
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Is everyone resigned to having to always pay for their 3D graphics,<br>
and always being vulnerable to losing everything if a company tanks<br>
or changes hands?<br>
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all the best, Don<br>
-- <br>
Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a><br>
Watkins 270 MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA work +1.831.656.2149<br>
X3D, virtual worlds, underwater robots, XMSF <a href="http://web.nps.navy.mil/%7Ebrutzman" target="_blank">http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman</a><br>
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