{"id":5329,"date":"2010-12-27T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T14:50:08","slug":"why-i-dont-have-an-iphone-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/12\/why-i-dont-have-an-iphone-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t have an iphone (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently I read an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2010\/03\/15\/Joining-Google\">blog entry of another internet veteran<\/a>. I am reprinting here the main argument<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe iPhone vision of the mobile Internet\u2019s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It\u2019s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord\u2019s pleasure and fear his anger.<!--more--><br \/>\nI hate it.<br \/>\nI hate it even though the iPhone hardware and software are great, because freedom\u2019s not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nApple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe tragedy is that Apple builds some great open platforms; I\u2019ve been a happy buyer of their computing systems for some years now and, despite my current irritation, will probably go on using them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Apple-wegen-angeblicher-Weitergabe-von-Nutzerdaten-verklagt-Update-1159403.html\">case Lalo vs Apple<\/a> &#8230;.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently I read an interesting blog entry of another internet veteran. I am reprinting here the main argument The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet\u2019s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It\u2019s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/12\/why-i-dont-have-an-iphone-yet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I don&#8217;t have an iphone (yet)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2567],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}