Apple Now Requiring iPhone Developers to Submit Retina Screenshots

[iSee]

Except that Apple is the only store around (short of jail breaking) and so you have no choice what-so-ever if you want to officially develop on that platform. It amazes me today's generation are so welcoming of someone else controlling everything they do. I guess it's different when you grow up during the Cold War period and other countries want to destroy your way of life and take away ALL of your freedoms. Wait long enough and it will happen again and people will value their freedoms once more. They take it for granted these days way too much, letting laws be passed to control everything they do and how they do it and letting corporations monitor everything they type and everything they do online. It's "normal" for them to be spied on.

Uh, a debate over the merits of a more open platform is a good one, but off-topic. I did grow up during the Cold War, but I don't think it has any relevance to the topic of this thread or the openness of the iOS platform debate in any way whatsoever. Apple doesn't control anything but their own products and services, which no one is required to use. If I didn't like the way Apple was doing things, I'd just stop using their products and services. I suggest you do the same.

Anyway, it'll give you more peace than the tinfoil hat you are wearing.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Develop for another platform. No one is being forced to develop for the iPhone.

That's akin to saying move to another country if you don't like it when you don't agree with a law here (as opposed to trying to get the law changed).

The point is if all major operating systems started doing the same thing for desktop/laptops, you'd quickly find yourself with no freedom to develop software the way you want it for anything. People liked to point out this is a PHONE and so it doesn't count, but the iPad is most certainly not a phone. It's just a tablet computer and Apple's move to bringing the App store to the Mac hints at its future as well. If the attitude is go buy a Windows machine, well, that's a shame because the reason I like the Mac has nothing to do with their licensing agreements.