http://paulgraham.com/apple.html Is the future of handheld devices one locked down by Apple? It's a worrying
prospect. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. In 1995, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications. Our horror at that prospect was the single biggest thing that drove us to start building web apps<http://paulgraham.com/road.html> .
Saidi
Another quote from the article: Evil begets stupidity. An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to
win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win... the reason Google embraced "Don't be evil" so eagerly was not so much to impress the outside world as to inoculate themselves against arrogance.
BTW, this is the same Paul Graham of YCombinator <http://ycombinator.com/>fame. saidi On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
http://paulgraham.com/apple.html
Is the future of handheld devices one locked down by Apple? It's a worrying
prospect. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. In 1995, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications. Our horror at that prospect was the single biggest thing that drove us to start building web apps<http://paulgraham.com/road.html> .
Saidi
*"It's too complicated for a third party to act as an intermediary between developer and user. "* How many coders are suffering under brokers, possibly hardware guys who approach you to sell your software to "their" clients, using their own company letterheads and money goes to them and lucky you if you will get the full deal of what was agreed one. they are really stifling the local software industry. peter <%20http://www.software.co.ke>. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:52 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
Another quote from the article:
Evil begets stupidity.
An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to
win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win... the reason Google embraced "Don't be evil" so eagerly was not so much to impress the outside world as to inoculate themselves against arrogance.
BTW, this is the same Paul Graham of YCombinator <http://ycombinator.com/>fame.
saidi
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
http://paulgraham.com/apple.html
Is the future of handheld devices one locked down by Apple? It's a
worrying prospect. It would be a bummer to have another grim monoculture like we had in the 1990s. In 1995, writing software for end users was effectively identical with writing Windows applications. Our horror at that prospect was the single biggest thing that drove us to start building web apps <http://paulgraham.com/road.html>.
Saidi
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