Apple’s Socialism
You know, Steve gets a lot of shit in the “public’s eye” for being an authoritarian dictator. But when you ask people about what exactly bothers them about Apple’s actions, it seems to me that Apple is a lot more democratic or even socialistic. For example, removing 64-bit Carbon was a huge deal for developers who were supporting Carbon apps. But overall, there’s little question that assigning the engineers that would have been maintaining that onto the iPhone/iPad teams was a better choice. Or take Flash - I don’t see anyone arguing that Flash performance will ever be good enough for a mobile device. Android claims it, but from what I’ve seen, there’s still a very long way to go.
