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Yesterday Apple released some proposed changes to their SDK license restricting the technologies that developers can use, including Adobe software and others such as Unity and Titanium.
This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe.
I am positive that there are a large number of Apple employees that strongly disagree with this latest move. Any real developer would not in good conscience be able to support this. The trouble is that we will never hear their discontent because Apple employees are forbidden from blogging, posting to social networks, or other things that we at companies with an open culture take for granted.
Okay, I'm sure many of you have heard about the fact that Flash is not permitted to run on Apple products right? A lot of you out there must be furious when you chanced upon a site and you see an icon which requires a flash player and there's nothing you can do about it!
You just have to suck your thumb and leave that site.
That is what Apple is doing, harming other developers and sites by directing viewers away because they can't watch the video.
This is sad, really sad.
But the sadder fact is that Apple is not just a closed system, it is a closed company which does not allow dissidents in the company to voice out.
They are actually banned from blogging about their unhappiness.
Personally, I trust that every single employee are like half your customers, they are not your full customers because they see things from the company's perspective.
It is imperative that you have to work from top to bottom, from the CEO all the way to the suppliers.
Any breakdown in this relationship will cause dissonance. In e long run, there will be a communication breakdown as employees believed that they are stymied by the system. They start to become more and more cynical and sardonic.
By shutting them out, you are de facto cutting them off the operations. Definitely insidious in nature.
Apple might be a genius in innovation, but if they continue to act in their own way, they will not be sustainable. I can see that they are getting more and more complacent these days. They are disregarding the opinions of the outside world. So ironic!
If they do not pull themselves back in time, it will not be long before we witness the demise of Apple.
Credits -techcrunch, -uni, -timdyson, -fineartamerica
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