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Steve Jobs Just Murdered the Web (yafla.com)

8 points by gill_bates ↗ HN
There has been a lot of debate about the infamous changes to section 3.3.1, however it's interesting to ponder how the web fits in Steve Jobs' perception of reality. Will iPhone 5.0 see the browser removed, that layer of crappy subpar "apps" replaced by the iTunes panacea?

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lsc
eh, personally, I am not the sort of person who buys or develops for apple products. Much like the author of the article, Apple makes a little bit too many of my choices for me (and more to the point, they make those choices assuming user that has different needs.) however, I also avoid flash, for my desktop, security is fairly important. this means noscript, and no flashplugin.

Personally, I'm pretty happy that apple has decided they don't like flash; because of this, fewer websites will require flash, which is good for me.

stevenwei
Well, that's the most overly sensationalist headline I've read in quite a while.

Murdered the web? Come on now.

tptacek
And yet up it climbs in the rankings, until enough people flag it.
mr_justin
The move by Apple could be roughly compared to saying Dreamweaver is banned from the web because of the sub-standard HTML it produces, but the argument presented here is a stretch to say the least.
jsz0
I wonder how the author accounts for people like me who specifically buy an iPhone because they don't want to deal with UI consistencies, application computability problems, or low quality puked out ports? Everyone raging over iPhone OS seems to come off as really sanctimonious to me. It is what it is. Buy something else, develop for something else. We have a very high level of competition in the SmartPhone industry today. Why not find something more ideologically compatible for yourself? I made my choice, you make yours.

A fun analogy might be that I decide to live in a condo and you decide to build a your own house. I don't come over and demand you move into a condo but you certainly seem to be demanding I build my own house because a condo somehow threatens your ideology. I'm sorry but that's lame. We all make choices and they should be respected. This type of idealogical obsession is more appropriate in a market without competition. As it stands today we have plenty of choice. If you simply don't like the choices people make it becomes increasingly hard to argue on the side of freedom. We quickly reach the point where you're impeding on my freedom if you want to take my choice away in favor of yours.