Is Apple Killing the ‘net? (In a bad way)
April 14, 2010 27 Comments
Apple, killing the internet, one underdeveloped,over-hyped device at a time.
I don’t fuck with radio. Sorry, it’s just extremely rare that they play anything I actually give half of a shit about. I was hella surprised when my niece told me they were playing J. Cole’s “Lights Please” on the radio. The only contact I get with radio is NPR. Ironically enough, while listening to NPR on my NPR app on my Iphone, they had a story regarding Apple’s destruction of the internet…
Word?
So, tech junkies are saying with Apple’s limited net through apps, it’s low-key restricting users from full internet access. Sure, Safari gives you access to the net (albeit limited due to the lack of flash support) The apps from the app store give you access to sites/net programming on an extremely limited level. The apps limit you for “ease of use” and Apple restricts who gets to put out apps. Apple’s not just blocking pornographic apps from the App store either, no sir. Apple blocks ideas, along with BangBros. During the last election, Apple blocked an App called “Freedom Time” which basically was a countdown until Bush was out of office. As just an Ipod/Iphone issue, this is all no big deal, however, with the creation of the Ipad, and Apple’s overall influence, this could go on to a whole new level.
With the Ipad’s recent release, “Tablet” seems to be the hot word in the tech world. Apple would like you to believe that tablet computing, similar to that of the IPad, is the future of portable, mobile computing. HP is coming up behind Apple with it’s Slate, a Windows 7 based tablet PC launching around June 2010. Clearly, with these computer’s smaller design, weaker processors, and for the sake of battery these tablets won’t be running the same programs you run on your desktops, or even laptops for that sake. Of course, Apple is running with it’s App store, which now includes Ipad exclusive apps. Will Slate run with it’s own app store? Probably not at release, however, in the long run, why the fuck not? All the main Iphone competitors followed suit in the cell phone market. Shit, now Vizio is releasing TV’s with Apps on them. While Web TV has never been a success, if anybody has a chance of bringing AppTv to the masses, it’s Vizio with their affordable HD LCDs/LEDs. All of this can be traced back to Apple.
Why not bite Apple? Apple computers are synonymous with ease of use, and the people love them. Apple’s Ipod dominates the MP3 player market with an iron fist to the point where people don’t refer to Mp3 players as Mp3 players, they call them all Ipods…including Zunes. Besides, when asked about the limited net access apps on the app store provide, people on NPR stated they didn’t mind it. Could Apple’s “gated community” approach to the internet (swacked that phrase from an analyst on NPR…I had to) influence other’s to take the same route, over time, limiting the internet overall? I believe so. Why not? If the people are accepting of it, why wouldn’t major corporations take advantage of the opportunity to push to the people only the things they want, none of the things they don’t? I’m saying, if you’d like to volunteer to be my unpaid slave…I got some work for you to do.
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About brillyance
Fuck Apple, bastards make some new shit only for it to be outdated in 10 seconds so you feel like a douche bag for buying it first. I bet 90% of the people who read this did the Kanye shrug and put their Ipod headphones back in cuz they’re sheep.
You could have written this article twenty years ago. Just substitute Tim Berners-Lee for Steve Jobs, and ask if the World Wide Web is killing the Internet (I bet many of your readers don’t even know the difference). Is instant messaging killing electronic mail? Did e-mail kill the post office? Did iTunes kill 45s? Did CDs kill vinyl? Did Blu-Ray kill VHS?
You could also go back sixty years and ask if television is killing radio. You could go back one hundred years and ask if automobiles are killing horses. Is progress killing the good old days?
Well, in response to Steve W, for the most part, on most of those questions…Yes. Now, the difference between the questions you asked, and the question I asked, is that in the questions you asked, most of the ability to express thoughts and ideas either remained the same, or increased. For example, Television gives the ability to express ideas visually, and through audio. Radio, was simply audio. Television hasn’t KILLED radio, it still exists, however, I’m sure families aren’t huddling around the radio every night to listen in like they used to. The ability to express is still there, in fact, it’s improved
Now, with my question, we’re talking about regression. Options are being limited, abilities are being limited. If this trend towards apps over internet goes forward, you have corporations in control of what apps are allowed, and which ones aren’t. I’m not claiming this will happen over night, and I’m not saying Steve Jobs intended this. I don’t think Steve Jobs sat in an office high above the sky proclaiming “I shall kill the net, moo haa haa haa!”, but…keep your eyes open. People like simple shit, and simplicity only comes with sacrifice. If simple remains extremely profitable….
brillyance – I think you miss Steve W.’s point. Yes, some options are being limited, but others are opening up, and this is the case with every technological change. There will be things that go away, but other things will pop up to take their place. And Apple is certainly not killing the personal computer – a device that remains, by your standards, “open.”
The fact that the ENTIRE worldwide web is available on an iPad sort of counters your argument. Flash, quite honestly, is a proprietary technology that, despite being used by many sites, is not really essential to many people’s browsing experience. And if you read about it, Apple’s decision not to support it has a LOT to do with technical issues in addition to them being pretty ruthless competitors. So don’t get all upset. Relax. And for God’s sake don’t buy an iPad/Pod/Phone!
I don’t see how everyone takes it as I’m upset. I have an Iphone, and an Ipod touch already. My guess is it’s probably the opening sentence, which I could understand. Actually the believe the Ipad is the beginning of something great…keyword, beginning. Apple normally get’s it straight in the long run, devices later.
As for options being limited with technological changes, I don’t believe that’s true. In fact, looking over Steve W’s examples, I don’t see any negatives from any of those changes, only positives.
As far as Apples decision to not support flash, I’m sure originally it was due to technical issues, but their continued lack of support seems to appear to have more to do with them being ruthless competitors. Why not support it? HTC is. Either way, this blog was about the increase in popularity/profitability of “Apps”, the limits of “Apps” and Apple’s influence. Like I said in response to Steve W, it’s not that I believe Steve Jobs is trying to do this, but if “Apps” keep getting more popular, that’s where this could be going.
Yeah, we users of Apple products are ‘sheep.’ Puh.
I buy and use Apple products because they provide superior user experience, cost less to maintain, etc.
Cost less to maintain. You trippin. My iPhone cracks it’s like 100 bux. If I owned a apple the components would be crazy expensive to replace. For the price of any apple desktop I could build two superior PC’s. Apples OS sucks. Let me get a file click find, search thru numerous folders then finally I got it. True Apples are more efficient and don’t have many viruses. Then again that’s only because people don’t care much to make a virus for apples. As they get more popular they will get more viruses.
When I refer to the apple users as sheep I say that because it SEEMS like the simplicity makes you blind to the influence these machines gain over you. For instance you look at the response you guys had to a new product you knew nothing about? People pre ordering and waiting out side for it like its the cure for aids. I’m not conspiracy theorist who thinks this is the frame work for skynet but I do think yall Mac characters act like sheep. Could be just me though
Apple is saving the Internet not killing it.
Let me explain.
Apple put their heart and soul into making the iPhone the very best experience for browsing the web on a mobile device at a time when WinMo, Symbian, RIM etc were killing the web on their awful, awful browsers. Even today, the competition is far from catching up with the iPhone OS capturing 50-60% of mobile web traffic around the world.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/21/iphone-android-admob-81-percent/
Apple created WebKit to bring the glories of Javascript, Web 2.0, Ajax, CSS, HTML 5 onto a mobile device and released it all as Open Source for all the world to use – and use it they have from Android, Chrome, Symbian etc.
It is Apple who helps chair the HTML 5 working group that is finally taking the basic foundation of web development (HTML) into a future that doesn’t need proprietary plugins like Flash, Silverlight or Java FX to deliver video and rich, interactive web apps and other content.
Have any of those who complain about the lack of Flash in the iPhones OS actually tried running any sort of complex Flash site on one of the few expensive, recent model smartphones that support the (almost) full Flash player (not the even more cut-down and incompatible Flash Lite)?
Because of Apple’s amazing discipline in not giving in to the wingers the tide of big name sites replacing Flash content with HTML 5 is quickly becoming a torrent.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/
For the first year of the iPhone’s existence, web apps were the ONLY way to create apps for the iPhone and the experience only gets better with each new release of Mobile Safari and WebKit. However, it was developers who screamed for native app development for the iPhone which Apple duly released in 2008 and Apple was just as shocked as the rest of the world as app downloads rocketed up past 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion and the number of apps available zoomed past 185,000.
So are Apps themselves killing the internet? Far from it – probably a majority of apps actually make internet and web content far more useable and easier to access on a mobile device and thus breathe new life and purpose into those very same internet properties. They are also allowing content and service providers to finally make some money out of their internet assets and actually become viable income sources.
Anyway, that’s just my 2c. Hope it makes sense to you.
-Mart
Ah, touché. Several valid points, and I believe you see what I, and the analyst in the NPR segmant that inspired this blog are trying to say, but you still disagree.
I think apps are great on my Iphone and Ipod (this is being typed on my wordpress app) , however, if tablet computing IS the future of computing as Apple claims, yet they still are pushing the App Store…? The app store/ apps limit freedom of speech. I’m not just talking about Apple’s either. (although I haven’t seen androids app store yet) what does the succss of the app store say to those specifically looking to control info given out to the consumers? With every device that releases and succeeds with some form of “app store” it says “Hey, it’s profitable to control the info you allow to be given out to the public”
Web browsers will still be around, and we’ll see over a little bit of time about HTML5′s effect on them. While the people commenting on this might still find them useful, if the masses choose instead to roll with the available “apps” provided by Apple, Google, Vizio or whoever, then they are being fed controlled content. If Apple wouldn’t approve of “Freedom Time”, I seriously doubt they’d accept a “Reality is Real” app.
WordPress app what the fuck why didn’t u let me know there was a word press app. Lol
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